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The Ten Commandments, 1956
Arnold Friberg (1913-2010)
A pre-production pencil concept costume sketch for the character of Nefretiri in the 1956 Paramount film The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. Demille, showing the peacock headdress worn by Anne Baxter as Nefretiri at Pharaoh's court when Charlton Heston as Moses turns his staff into a cobra, signed in pencil by Arnold Friberg, with production ink-stamps to reverse Paramount Pictures Corporation Research Department and C. B. De Mille Productions Art Dept; accompanied by a black and white photograph of Friberg's pre-production oil painting of Nefretiri in the same costume, the reverse with typescript details #696 Egypt - Antiquities - Costume, Copied from A. Friberg sketch, TEN COMMANDMENTS, April 22, 1954, with production ink-stamp Paramount Pictures Corporation Research Department
20¾x14½in. (53x37cm.)
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