Oliver Messel Paintings
British, 1904-1978
Born in London, his mother being the daughter of the Punch cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne and his father a soldier and stockbroker. After Eton he studied art at the Slade under Henry Tonks; Rex Whistler was a fellow student. Although his studies concentrated on life drawings he also made papier mache and wax masks for student events and an exhibition of these masks at the Claridge Galleries in 1925 let to his first theatre design commission for the Diaghilev ballet production of Zeephyre et Flore. By the early 1930s had established himself as one of Britain’s principal designers for the stage. He went on to design for many theatrical, operatic, ballet and film productions becoming one of the most highly paid and sought after theatre designers in the world.
His books included Stage Designs and Costumes, 1933; Designs for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1957 and Delightful Food, 1958. He held one-man exhibitions at the Leicester Galleries and Redfern Gallery, designed interiors and gardens of the Dorchester Hotel, Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire and elsewhere as well as several houses and grounds in Barbados and Mustique. The Victoria & Albert Museum hold the majority of his design archives.(Biography provided by Sarah Colegrave Fine Art)
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Artist: Oliver Messel
The Dancer - 20th Century British painting by Oliver Messel
By Oliver Messel
Located in London, GB
OLIVER MESSEL
(1904-1978)
Dancer
Signed l.r.: Oliver Messel
Oil and watercolour on paper
Framed
60 by 50 in., 23 ½ by 19 ¾ cm.
(Frame size 76.5 by 66.5 in., 30 by 26 ¼ cm.)
Bor...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Oliver Messel Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Oil
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