Lot 47
47
Osbert Lancaster

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Osbert Lancaster
Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines
two watercolour and pencil costume designs, one signed in pencil and annotated with character details Popperwell - Tony Hancock, the other annotated Sukmaki but apparently for the character Yamamoto; and another design of a naval officer, possibly for the Leonard Bernstein musical Candide, signed in ink, and annotated with the actor's name Brian O'Leary, largest
11¼x9in. (28.6x22.8cm.) (3)

Lot Essay

Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines, 1965, TCF received an Academey Award nomination for best script.

Bryan O'Leary played several roles in Leonard Bernstein's musical Candide, when it was produced at the Saville Theatre in 1959, including a Policeman, Second Lady Mary and Second Senor.

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