Oedipus Rex
Costume Design
1945 (drawn)
1945 (drawn)
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| Place of origin |
Minoan-style costume design for a female attendant or member of the chorus. She wears a salmon pink bodice decorated with black vertical wavy stripes and a black neck trim or necklace. The long skirt is salmon pink with a white front panel edged in black. It has vertical grey stripes, possibly intended to suggest shadow. On her head she has a black curled wig and a black crown headdress and there are bands of black round her wrists and upper arms. On the right of the design is a smaller version, showing the back of the costume.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Oedipus Rex (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Gouache and pencil on paper |
| Brief description | Costume design by Sophie Fedorovitch for a female attendant or member of the chorus in a proposed production of Oedipus Rex, 1945 |
| Physical description | Minoan-style costume design for a female attendant or member of the chorus. She wears a salmon pink bodice decorated with black vertical wavy stripes and a black neck trim or necklace. The long skirt is salmon pink with a white front panel edged in black. It has vertical grey stripes, possibly intended to suggest shadow. On her head she has a black curled wig and a black crown headdress and there are bands of black round her wrists and upper arms. On the right of the design is a smaller version, showing the back of the costume. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'attendant' (Written in pencil, lower right) |
| Credit line | Given by the Friends of the Museum of the Performing Arts |
| Object history | One of a large lot of Fedorovitch designs, then unidentified, acquired by Richard Buckle for £160 at the auction of Simon Fleet's estate in Salisbury. These designs were purchased for Buckle's Friends of the Museum of the Performing Arts. They were later given by Buckle to the V&A on behalf of the Friends of the Museum of the Performing Arts. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | S.665-2019 |
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| Record created | October 8, 2019 |
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