Graphite and gouache on paper
Tate Collection
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Costume Design
Presented by the Art Fund 1933
actions: postures and motions
adults
cloak
clothing and personal items
dress: fantasy/fancy
hat
heating and lighting
light / lamp
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
man
objects
people
society
standing
theatrical costume
Wilde, Oscar, ‘Salome’
paper unique graphite gouache
Costume Design
support: 292 × 394 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1933
<p><b>N04684</b> COSTUME DESIGN <i>c.</i> 1920</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Pencil and watercolour, 11 1/2×15 1/2 (29×39).
<br/>Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund 1933.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by the N.A.C.F. from the artist's executors 1932.</p>
<p>The costume has not been identified with certainty, but it has been suggested by George Nash and confirmed by Aubrey Ensor (letter of 11 January 1961) that it may be a design for Oscar Wilde's <i>Salome</i> as given in Japan 1920 (after the original production at King's Hall, Covent Garden, in 1906). A label on other designs for this production in the V. &amp; A. states that the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> were made to replace the original ones, lost in the customs at New York in 1920.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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2004-10-06T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults cloak clothing and personal items dress: fantasy/fancy hat heating and lighting light / lamp literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) man objects people society standing theatrical costume Wilde, Oscar, ‘Salome’