Lot 127
127
Gladys Calthrop
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more The following five lots are formerly the property of Joan Hirst, secretary to Sir Noël Coward from 1951 until his death in 1973.
Gladys Calthrop

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Gladys Calthrop
Oracabessa Harbour
oil on canvas, signed lower left G.E. Calthrop, inscribed Oracabessa Bay, May 1948, after loading bananas (on the reverse)
11½x15½in. (29x39.3cm.)
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

Gladys Calthrop was Noël Coward's favourite designer who first worked with him on The Vortex in 1924. Calthrop not only designed costumes, but scenery as well, and worked on every Coward production until 1952, when Coward invited Cecil Beaton to design the sets and costumes for Quadrille.

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