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Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980) Preparatory drawings for The Gainsborough Girls, 1951 image 1
Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980) Preparatory drawings for The Gainsborough Girls, 1951 image 2
Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980) Preparatory drawings for The Gainsborough Girls, 1951 image 3
The Roy Astley Collection: Theatrical Designs by Cecil Beaton and Oliver Messel
Lot 21AR

Cecil Beaton
(British, 1904-1980)
Preparatory drawings for The Gainsborough Girls, 1951

20 May – 3 June 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980)

Preparatory drawings for The Gainsborough Girls, 1951
signed 'BEATON' (lower right)
crayon
43.75 x 28.75cm (17 1/4 x 11 5/16in).

Footnotes

The Gainsborough Girls was written by Beaton as what he hoped would launch his career as a playwright. It was performed at Theatre Royal in Brighton sadly to lack lustre reviews. The play was later restaged as Landscape with Figures with Donald Wolfit as Gainsborough, photographs of which make up lot 118 in the present sale.

Literature
D. Mellor, Cecil Beaton, exhibition catalogue, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1986, p.228

Exhibited
The Barbican Art Gallery, London, Cecil Beaton, 16 May - 20 July 1986, no.P30

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