Sir Cecil Beaton
John Neville's Costume for Berowne, 'Love's Labour's Lost', 1954
watercolour over ink
43.5 x 31 cm
17 1/8 x 12 1/4 in
17 1/8 x 12 1/4 in
Beaton's designs for a production of Love's Labour's Lost at the Old Vic in 1954 were his first for a Shakespeare play. John Gielgud wrote of the designs: 'The simplicity...
Beaton's designs for a production of Love's Labour's Lost at the Old Vic in 1954 were his first for a Shakespeare play. John Gielgud wrote of the designs: "The simplicity and ingenuity of the whole design serves the play most admirably and the clothes are beautiful, striking and poetic."