Name: Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel (1904-1978)
Brand: Costume design for Leslie Howard, as Romeo at Sycamore Grove, for the Goldwyn-Mayer production of Romeo and Juliet, 1936
Price: 400.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel (1904-1978)
Costume design for Leslie Howard, as Romeo at Sycamore Grove, for the Goldwyn-Mayer production of Romeo and Juliet, 1936
signed 'Oliver Messel' (lower right) and inscribed 'Romeo. W. Sycamore grove' (upper left)
pencil and watercolour heightened with white.
15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1936.

London, The Leicester Galleries, 1906, number untraced.

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Oliver Messel designed the set and costumes for the 1936 film of Romeo and Juliet, which was produced in Hollywood by MGM. The film was directed by George Cukor and starred Norma Shearer as Juliet and and Leslie Howard as Romeo. Messel's designs were reproduced in a limited edition of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, which was published by B.T. Batsfords Ltd, London, 1936.

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