Midnight Cavalcade

Details

Sir Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980)
Midnight Cavalcade
signed 'BEATON' (lower right) and inscribed 'MIDNIGHT CAVALCADE' (upper centre)
watercolour and bodycolour
16 x 12¼ in. (40.7 x 31.1 cm.)

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis. Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

The present work is a poster design for the charity event Midnight Cavalcade on the 18th March 1954, at the London Palladium. Performers inculded Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, Richard Attenborough and Sybil Thorndike.

More from British, Continental & Russian Pictures

View All