Oliver Messel Watercolour Stage Design For The Magical Boat In Sleeping Beauty 1946

Oliver Messel Watercolour Stage Design For The Magical Boat In Sleeping Beauty 1946Oliver Messel 1904 1978 British School 20th. Century. Watercolour heightened with white gouache over charcoal, an original Stage design for Sleeping Beauty Act II, The Panorama Scene with the Lilac Fairy and Prince Florimund in a magical boat drawn by Seahorses. Sadler's Wells Ballet at Covent Garden February 1946. 43 by 29. 2 cms. To mounted image. 59. 3 by 46. 5 cms framed overall. Provenance: Sothebys 22 October 1987 Ballet Sale Lot 882. Oliver

Zeus fell in love with Europa and transformed himself into a beautiful white bull to win her over

Signed and Dated 1795

Ellen Wallace Sharples 1769-1849 Portrait of a boy in a blue brass buttoned jacket

a drunken Silenus with the god Pan leads a lustful parade of satyrs and centaurs to honour the return of Bacchus from his travels through India

Provenance: Formerly with Bill Drummond Covent Garden Gallery

Signed inscribed and dated lower right "D

He is known to have studied in Venice under Sante Peranda and later under Claudio Ridolfi

in a white dress and bonnet pastel 51

Samuel Shelley O

Some general wear and fritting to edges

watercolour

Just days before his death at the age of seventy-eight