Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso
Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso
Property from a Private European Collection
Leonora Carrington
A Set of 3 Masks (used in the 1959 production of The Tempest)
Lot Closed
March 26, 12:07 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private European Collection
Leonora Carrington
1917 - 2011
A Set of 3 Masks (used in the 1959 production of The Tempest)
gouache, decorator's gold paint, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster of Paris, scrim, canvas, metal armature, tape, string and elastic
Width: 54.5cm., 21½in. (yellow mask)
Width: 36cm., 14⅛in. (red mask)
Width: 49.5cm., 19½in. (turquoise mask)
Executed in 1959.
We are grateful to Dr. Harold Gabriel Weisz Carrington for confirming the authenticity of this work.
Thence by descent to the present owner