Sale 5446
London, South Kensington
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20 June 2014
Price realised
GBP 2,500
Estimate
The Crusades, 1935/Loretta Young Natalie Visart (1910-1986) A watercolour and pencil costume sketch for Loretta Young as Berengaria in the 1935 Paramount film The Crusades, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, showing the medieval tunic dress with long drop sleeves worn by Young during the Council of Kings, titled in pencil Princess of Navarre and signed Visart and Dorann, the reverse with five pencil sketches of a female figure and a headdress design, with production ink-stamp C.B. De Mille Productions Art Dept; accompanied by corresponding black and white reproduction still 22x15in. (56x38cm.)
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