Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus--John Piper.

executed in pen, coloured and white crayons, scratching-out and gouache, next to working sketches for the scenes in pencil, the designs both signed in ink, untitled, but for Don Giovanni, one for a street scene, the other for the graveyard scene, for the production at Glyndebourne in 1951, 2 items, folio, framed and glazed, overall size: c.33 x 42cms, [1951] 

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These two designs were obtained by Christopher Raeburn directly from the artist.