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Lot 749

A group of Charles Le Maire costume designs

30 November 2016, 12:00 EST
New York

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A group of Charles Le Maire costume designs

Comprising 29 smaller costume designs in graphite, some numbered or annotated, housed in a Twentieth Century-Fox manila envelope labeled, "'Men in Her Life' / rough sketches / Charles Le Maire Ladies Wardrobe / 1st drawings"; with 6 costume designs, pen, watercolor, and pencil on paper, various sizes, annotated, with a blank page labeled "Le Maire" in ink. Charles Le Maire ranks among Golden Age Hollywood's greatest and most prolific costume designers. The Men in Her Life (Columbia, 1941) was one of Le Maire's earliest films; his pencil sketches depict many of Loretta Young's formal period costumes for the film from various angles. His various illustrations in this lot depict: a gown captioned "Constance / Bennett / Private / Change," dated 1950; Susan Hayward in an evening dress in East Side Story (1949) (released as House of Strangers) with a list of actresses and film titles to the right side in pencil; Norma Talmadge in a satin gown in Smilin' Through (1922); Mary Ellis in a white satin and lace gown in Rose-Marie (1924), mounted on board; two small watercolors of elaborate hats attached to a blank page, labeled "The Red Hat" to its verso; and a larger drawing of a wedding gown, captioned, "For Margaret Emerson '35 / Her wedding – Blush Pink Soft Satin" in pen with other notations.
6 ½ x 7 ½ in to 12 x 21 in

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