PRIVATE LIVES, 1983
Lot 941 The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor

PRIVATE LIVES, 1983

Closed16 December 2011

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USD 17,500

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PRIVATE LIVES, 1983
A two-piece suit of lavender blue silk jersey, the fitted jacket with full length sleeves trimmed with blue chiffon ruffles to collar and cuffs, and matching pencil skirt, both labeled Barbara Matera Ltd, New York inscribed in black typescript Miss Taylor, made for Elizabeth Taylor as Amanda Prynne in the 1983 Broadway theater production of Noël Coward's Private Lives (2)

Specialist note

Richard Burton played Amanda Prynne's divorcée Elyot Chase in the same production of the 1930s play, the irony of which the audience loved.