Study of an elegant lady

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Sir Cecil Beaton, C.B.E. (1904-1980)
Study of an elegant lady
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
14 x 12 in. (35.6 x 30.5 cm.); eighteen unframed costume designs for 'The Gainsborough Girls'; 'Turandot'; 'Our Lady's Tumbler'; and other productions; A study of Sam Green playing the piano; and others by the same hand (19)

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Lot Essay

'Our Lady's Tumbler', written by Ronald Duncan, was staged in Salisbury Cathedral in 1951.

Samuel Adams Green was a regular travelling companion of Cecil Beaton's in later life.

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