Motley (Margaret Harris, Sophie Harris and Elizabeth Montgomery Wilmot)

Estimate

100 - 150 GBP

Sold

1,125 GBP

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Description

Motley (Margaret Harris, Sophie Harris and Elizabeth Montgomery Wilmot)
Costume Design for George Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma, Act I
signed, dated 41 and inscribed ACT I / PALE PINK PLEATED / ROMAINE / BLACK HAT & GLOVES
pencil and watercolour on paper

Provenance

Probably Leicester Galleries, London, where acquired by Vivien Leigh, 16th April 1947

Literature

Notley Abbey Inventory, April 1948, p. 27, Principal Landing and Corridors and Staircase to Hall, 'A Water Colour drawing, Lady in Plum colour Skirt, signed Motley, and two others, same artist' (The Vivien Leigh Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, THM/433/6/1).