Costume design for the Queen of Spades, showing Lisaveta Ivanova’s opera dress, from the Royal Opera House production of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, December 1950

Name: Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel (1904-1978)
Brand: Costume design for the Queen of Spades, showing Lisaveta Ivanova’s opera dress, from the Royal Opera House production of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, December 1950
Price: 600.00 GBP
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Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel (1904-1978)

Costume design for the Queen of Spades, showing Lisaveta Ivanova’s opera dress, from the Royal Opera House production of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, December 1950

Price Realised GBP 750

Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel (1904-1978)
Costume design for the Queen of Spades, showing Lisaveta Ivanova’s opera dress, from the Royal Opera House production of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, December 1950
signed 'Oliver Messel' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with white, gold and silver, in the artist's original mount
10½ x 17¾ in. (26.2 x 45.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1950.

Mrs. A. Norman, Leicester Galleries, 1948.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the late 1990s.

London, Leicester Galleries, 'Exhibition of works by Oliver Messel', November 1948, no. 38.

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Lot Essay

Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades (1890) was performed for the first time at the Royal Opera House by the Covent Garden Opera Trust on 21 December 1950. Oliver Messel had previously worked on the film production a year earlier in 1949, by creating and producing extravagant sets and costumes.

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