Oliver Messel Stage Set Design Colonnade For 'Tough At The Top' 1949

Oliver Messel Stage Set Design Colonnade For 'Tough At The Top' 1949Oliver Messel 1904 1978. British School 20th. Century. Stage set design titled 'Colonnade' for 'Tough at The Top.' 1949. Provenance: Redfern Gallery 20 Cork St, London, Purchased by Sydney Bernstein 1951. Exhibited at The Oliver Messel Exhibition, V&A Museum, 1983. 36. 5 by 23 cms image. 50 by 36 cms overall framed. Oliver Messel was the foremost British stage and costume designer of the 1930s, 40's and 50's. His often unconventional and opulent

19 by 16 cms

producing designs for the Radio Times for over four decades as well as book illustrations

he exhibited two portrait miniatures at the Royal Academy of Arts (1801-2)

which was well reproduced in the coloured aquatints by ​Francis Jukes and others

Pencil and watercolour on wove paper

There was one virtue in which he particularly excelled

the son of a schoolmaster and writer from Westmoreland

Portrait of Miss Willett

known as silhouettes

Billy and Grand Griffon Vendeen

51 by 77cms

Condition commensurate with age