Live Auction 6006Christie's Interiors
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (1904-1980)
Lot 362

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (1904-1980)

Costume design for a fête champêtre worn by Lady Elizabeth von Hofmannsthal (1916-1980)

Closed1 May 2012

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GBP 625

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Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (1904-1980)
Costume design for a fête champêtre worn by Lady Elizabeth von Hofmannsthal (1916-1980)
signed 'Beaton' (lower right), inscribed 'For a/Fete/Champetre.' (upper right) and further inscribed 'Mrs von Hofmannsthal' (lower centre)
watercolour and bodycolour
13 5/8 x 11¼ in. (34.6 x 28.6 cm.)

Specialist note

Lady Elizabeth von Hofmannsthal was one of the Paget sisters, a Maid of Honour at George V's coronation in 1937, and like her aunt, Lady Diana Cooper, one of the most beautiful women in England in her day. A good friend of Cecil Beaton's, she was photographed by him for Vogue in September 1948, and she donated two of her evening dresses to the collection he founded at the Victoria and Albert Museum.