Edith Head And Grace Kelly Rear Window, 1954

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Edith Head And Grace Kelly Rear Window, 1954
A watercolour and pencil costume sketch of Grace Kelly as Lisa Carol Fremont in the Paramount film Rear Window, 1954, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the sketch showing Hitchcock's vision of a floral sundress worn by Grace Kelly during the explosive scenes when the murder is discovered, signed in pencil by Edith Head and ink-stamped on the verso Paramount Pictures Corporation -- 16.3.4x13¾in. (42.5x35cm.), framed; accompanied by a black and white publicity photograph [printed later] of Grace Kelly in this costume (2)

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This pretty floral dress was designed to heighten Grace Kelly's femininity when she breaks into Thorwold's apartment. To help to exaggerate this further Kelly added extra petticoats under the dress and wore high heels. In contrast to the other costumes we see Kelly in, this is the only one that has an obvious pattern on the material, a purposeful choice. It is of interest to see that in the accompanying press photograph of Kelly wearing this costume that she is holding a sun-hat, in the film this hat is absent.
See footnote to lot 84