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    • Lambert (Isabel, 1912-1992). Five costume designs for the ballet Tiresias, circa 1950/51
      Mar. 13, 2024

      Lambert (Isabel, 1912-1992). Five costume designs for the ballet Tiresias, circa 1950/51

      Est: £200 - £300

      Lambert (Isabel, 1912-1992). Five costume designs for the ballet Tiresias, circa 1950/51 * Lambert (Isabel, 1912-1992). Five costume designs for the ballet Tiresias, circa 1950/51, watercolour and gouache on paper, heightened with gold, inscribed ‘Designs by Isabel Lambert for Royal Ballet of Tiresias / music by Constant Lambert choreography by Frederick Ashton / with love from Sap(?)’ in pencil to verso, each individually titled, displayed in a multi-aperture mount, each aperture 17 x 12 cm (6 3/4 x 4 3/4 ins), framed and glazed (31 x 87 cm) QTY: (5) NOTE: Designs include ‘Girl Toreador Scene I’, ‘Priestess Scene I’, ‘Girl Toreador Scene I’, ‘Priestess Scene I’, and ‘Sheperdess (sic) Scene II’. Six additional costume designs for Tiresias by Isabel Lambert are held in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collections - S.2287, S.1934, S.1933, S.2284, S.2285 / 1986 respectively. Isabel Lambert Rawsthorne (neé Nicholas) trained at the Liverpool School of Art and the Royal Academy in London. Her artist circle included André Derain, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon. In 1947 she married Constant Lambert (1905-1951), composer and founding Music Director of The Royal Ballet. In 1951 she designed the set and costumes for Frederick Ashton’s (1904-1988) new ballet Tiresias, with a score by her then husband. Provenance: From the estate of Martyn Thomas (partner of Frederick Ashton), thence by descent to the present owner.

      Dominic Winter Auctions
    • Isabel Lambert (British, 1912-1992)
      Jan. 25, 2006

      Isabel Lambert (British, 1912-1992)

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      Two Birds and a fish signed with monogram, oil on canvas 61 x 92cm (24 x 36in)

      Bonhams
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