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Lot 10 From the Collection of the late Anthony Powell
The late Oscar-winning costume designer Anthony Powell studied at the Central School of Arts in London and worked, in his early career, with both Cecil Beaton and Oliver Messel. He won three Academy Awards for his costume designs; and his stage and opera designs included Sunset Boulevard in 1993 and My Fair Lady in 2010. His collection extended across all categories, with his Old Master Drawings and Prints undoubtedly providing aesthetic inspiration for his designs.
(Lots 10-13; 16; 40; 41; 198; 227)
The late Oscar-winning costume designer Anthony Powell studied at the Central School of Arts in London and worked, in his early career, with both Cecil Beaton and Oliver Messel. He won three Academy Awards for his costume designs; and his stage and opera designs included Sunset Boulevard in 1993 and My Fair Lady in 2010. His collection extended across all categories, with his Old Master Drawings and Prints undoubtedly providing aesthetic inspiration for his designs.
(Lots 10-13; 16; 40; 41; 198; 227)
ANNIBALE CARRACCI (BOLOGNA 1560-1609 ROME)
An extensive coastal landscape with a procession of figures in the foreground and buildings on the water (recto); Study of a crouching man, his profile and a foot (verso)
Closed5 July 2022
Price Realised
GBP 5,670
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Specialist note
Two similarly swiftly rendered landscapes from the Ellesmere Collection dating to the artist's last years are in the British Museum, London (inv. 1972,0722.13; D. Benati, The Drawings of Annibale Carracci, exhib. cat., Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1999, no. 95, ill.) and the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (inv. C1973/2303). Annibale suffered from illness as early as 1605, which made it impossible for him to undertake new projects. Only a few works are known from the last years of his life apart from some etchings and remarkably suggestive drawings – fewer lines and a vaster, more rhythmic treatment of receding planes and distant space.