Lot Description
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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Pre-Lot Text
The following five lots are formerly the property of Joan Hirst, secretary to Sir Noël Coward from 1951 until his death in 1973.
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Lot Notes
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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