Costume Design
ca. 1957 (made)
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Costume design by Loudon Sainthill for Cleopatra in William Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra, Old Vic, 5 March 1957.
Tasmanian-born artist Loudon Sainthill (1918-1969) came to England in 1949. He had designed for the stage in Australia but it was in Britain that his theatrical career developed. His spectacular sets and costumes for Michael Benthall's 1951 production of The Tempest at Stratford-upon-Avon established him as a leading designer. Sainthill's work encompassed opera, notably Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or at Covent Garden in 1954, Shakespeare, pantomimes, musicals and revues, and although he became associated with a flamboyant and opulent fantastical style of design, he could also create an everyday reality, as demonstrated by his interiors for the film version of John Osborne's play, Look Back in Anger.
Sainthill designed the sets and costumes for the Old Vic's Antony and Cleopatra, which was directed by Robert Helpmann, with Keith Michell as Antony and Margaret Whiting, in a succession of pleated chiffon gowns, as Cleopatra.
Tasmanian-born artist Loudon Sainthill (1918-1969) came to England in 1949. He had designed for the stage in Australia but it was in Britain that his theatrical career developed. His spectacular sets and costumes for Michael Benthall's 1951 production of The Tempest at Stratford-upon-Avon established him as a leading designer. Sainthill's work encompassed opera, notably Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or at Covent Garden in 1954, Shakespeare, pantomimes, musicals and revues, and although he became associated with a flamboyant and opulent fantastical style of design, he could also create an everyday reality, as demonstrated by his interiors for the film version of John Osborne's play, Look Back in Anger.
Sainthill designed the sets and costumes for the Old Vic's Antony and Cleopatra, which was directed by Robert Helpmann, with Keith Michell as Antony and Margaret Whiting, in a succession of pleated chiffon gowns, as Cleopatra.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pastel and gouache on paper |
| Brief description | Costume design by Loudon Sainthill for Cleopatra in William Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra, Old Vic, 5 March 1957 |
| Physical description | Costume design for Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra. Full-length figure in a long blue Egyptian-style pleated dress, her head in profile, facing to the viewer's left. Drawn on black paper. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Cleopatra Negligeé' (Inscribed by the artist, lower left.) |
| Literary reference | Antony and Cleopatra |
| Summary | Costume design by Loudon Sainthill for Cleopatra in William Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra, Old Vic, 5 March 1957. Tasmanian-born artist Loudon Sainthill (1918-1969) came to England in 1949. He had designed for the stage in Australia but it was in Britain that his theatrical career developed. His spectacular sets and costumes for Michael Benthall's 1951 production of The Tempest at Stratford-upon-Avon established him as a leading designer. Sainthill's work encompassed opera, notably Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or at Covent Garden in 1954, Shakespeare, pantomimes, musicals and revues, and although he became associated with a flamboyant and opulent fantastical style of design, he could also create an everyday reality, as demonstrated by his interiors for the film version of John Osborne's play, Look Back in Anger. Sainthill designed the sets and costumes for the Old Vic's Antony and Cleopatra, which was directed by Robert Helpmann, with Keith Michell as Antony and Margaret Whiting, in a succession of pleated chiffon gowns, as Cleopatra. |
| Other number | SH.53 - Previous loan number |
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| Accession number | S.314-2011 |
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| Record created | July 21, 2011 |
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