Vivien Leigh as Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Painting
1950 (painted)
1950 (painted)
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Oil portrait of Vivien Leigh as Blanche Dubois, full length. Her body faces the viewer's right but her head is turned towards the viewer's left. She stands in an interior, painted in shades of brown and black. She wears a cream-coloured evening dress and holds a glass in her right hand.
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Title | Vivien Leigh as Blanche Dubois in <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i> by Tennessee Williams (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Oil on canvas |
Brief description | Painting entitled "Vivien Leigh as Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams" by Alfred Kingsley Lawrence, 1950 |
Physical description | Oil portrait of Vivien Leigh as Blanche Dubois, full length. Her body faces the viewer's right but her head is turned towards the viewer's left. She stands in an interior, painted in shades of brown and black. She wears a cream-coloured evening dress and holds a glass in her right hand. |
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Gallery label | Vivien Leigh as Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire
1950
Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) first played the role of Blanche Dubois in the 1949 stage production of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Aldwych Theatre, London. Her success in the part persuaded Elia Kazan to cast her as Blanche in his 1951 film version. This painting belonged to Vivien and hung on the sitting room wall of her East Sussex home Tickerage Mill.
Play by Tennessee Williams, 1947
Aldwych Theatre, London
Oil on canvas
By Alfred Kingsley Lawrence (1893-1975)
Given by the British Theatre Museum Association
Museum no. S.92-1986
(17/12/2014) |
Credit line | Given by the British Theatre Museum Association |
Object history | Bequeathed to the British Theatre Museum Association by Vivien Leigh. |
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Literary reference | <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i> |
Bibliographic reference | Ashton, Geoffrey. Catalogue of Paintings at the Theatre Museum, London. ed. James Fowler, London : Victoria and Albert Museum, 1992. 224p. ill. ISBN 1851771026 |
Other number | 1968/A/8 - BTMA accession number |
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Accession number | S.92-1986 |
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Record created | November 12, 2003 |
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