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A WEDDING PRESENT FROM TOM PARR:
Gaspare Galliari (1761-1823)
A stage design for a garden with terrace and staircase (i)
titled 'Giardino con vista di teraza e scalinato' (upper centre); together with 18th century English school, Arcadian view (ii)
pencil, ink and grey wash on paper (i), watercolour and grey wash on paper (ii)
658 x 858 in. (16.8 x 22 cm.) (i), 10 x 1334 in. (52.5 x 35 cm.) (ii)
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Provenance
The Galliari: Possibly with Charles Loeser, Florence.
Possibly with the Seiferheld Gallery, New York.
A wedding present to H.R.H. The Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon from Tom Parr (1930-2011), wedding present no. 41.
Literature
The Galliari: R. Muir, ‘Double Exposure: Lord Snowdon’s Kensington Villa’, World of Interiors, January 2009, p. 150, illustrated in Lord Snowdon’s bathroom.
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Lot Essay

Tom Parr was a close friend of Lord Snowdon and one of the pre-eminent post-war interior decorators who honed the English country house style. Originally a business partner of David Hicks, he eventually joined the eponymous firm of Colefax and Fowler, where he eventually served as Chairman.

The scene by Galliari relates closely to a drawing of a stage design for 'A Garden of Clipped Arches' now in the Morgan Library and Museum, New York (see 1982.75:268:2) and further drawings now in the Victoria and Albert Museum (see E.5291-1960).

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