Sale 2465 - Illustration Art, December 14, 2017

228 c JOSÉ LUIS VIÑAS. Showgirl * Cat woman and ballerina. Costume designs for Las Vegas shows “Casino de Paris” and “Vive les Girls,” circa 1970s. Marker, gouache, and graphite, one with metallic inks. 432x356 mm; 17x14 inches. Signed in lower right margins. [1,000/1,500] The Spanish costume designer Viñas was known for his use of exotic and luxury textiles and materials including chinchilla, velvet, fox, and swanskin in the costumes for many long-running Las Vegas revues. Sieg fried and Roy commissioned costumes from him for their famous show at the Frontier Hotel in the mid-1980s. 228 229 c DAVID WALKER. Lord Tremaine. Costume design for “Cinderella,” which premiered at the Royal Opera House, London, December 23, 1965. Graphite, pen, ink, watercolor and gum arabic on two pieces of joined paper mounted to a single sheet. 356x197 mm; 14x7 3 / 4 inches, on 15 1 / 4 x19 1 / 2 -inch sheet. Unsigned. Taped to window matte; framed with Wright Hepburn Gallery label on verso. [600/900] Walker (1934 - 2008) partnered with Henry Bardon in a revival of Ashton’s “Cinderella.” See also Lot 188. 229