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The Women

Design
1986 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Old Vic Theatre (London, England) (producer)
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre (producer)
Voytek (designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (designed)

Preliminary design by Voytek for "Reno" neon sign in Clare Booth Luce's The Women, directed by Keith Hack, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford and Old Vic, London, 1986. This production opened at the Yvonne Arnaud on 29 October 1986 and at the Old Vic on 19 November 1986.


Object details

Categories
Designs
Entertainment & Leisure
Theatre
Object type
Design
TitleThe Women (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Pen, pencil and crayon on paper
Ink
Paper
Pencil
Crayon
Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description
Preliminary design ("3") by Voytek for "Reno" neon sign in Clare Booth Luce's The Women, directed by Keith Hack, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford and Old Vic, London, 1986
Physical description
Pen, pencil and crayon on paper preliminary design by Voytek, with pencil and crayon annotation, for "Reno" neon sign in Clare Booth Luce's The Women, directed by Keith Hack, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford and Old Vic, London, 1986. The design shows a red and orange drawing of the side profile of a man in a hat, inside a circle underneath the word "Reno". This design is marked "(3)" in the top right corner.
Dimensions
  • Height: 29.5cm
  • Width: 20.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
(3) Reno The Women "Reno" neon DESIGN Diam 6'. blue & red. RED + BLUE SILVER BACKING (On front side in pencil and red crayon)
Credit line
Given by the artist
Literary referenceThe Women
Summary
Preliminary design by Voytek for "Reno" neon sign in Clare Booth Luce's The Women, directed by Keith Hack, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford and Old Vic, London, 1986. This production opened at the Yvonne Arnaud on 29 October 1986 and at the Old Vic on 19 November 1986.
Other number
THM/153 (Voytek Archive) - Archive number
Collection
Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number
S.2051-1994

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Record createdSeptember 25, 2014
Record URL
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