Photo © Bonhams — view this lot on Bonhams ↗A Broadway Fantasy
Watercolor · Paper
Bonhams · Sep 23, 2025£5,120 ≈ $6,917 ≈ €5,865Sign up free to see price
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A design for Midas
Cecil Beaton (British, 1904–1980) · circa 1922-23
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£640 price realized incl. premium
≈ $864≈ €759
Hammer £500 · with buyer’s premium £640
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- Medium
- Watercolor · Works on paper all watercolor results →As published: “watercolour, gouache and pen and ink”
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed
- Category
- Watercolors
- Dimensions
- 51 x 39.25cm (20 1/16 x 15 7/16in).
- Auction house
- Bonhams
- Sale
- Collections: Including the Roy Astley Collection of Theatrical Designs, and Selected Items from the Estates of Geoffrey Sawyer; Sir Brian Williamson; and Howard Godfrey (31256)
- Date
- June 3, 2025
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Lot
- 1
- Estimate
- £800 – £1,200 (≈ $1,080 – $1,620) (≈ €948 – €1,422)
- Source
- Auction house bonhams.com ↗Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
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Photo © Bonhams — view this lot on Bonhams ↗Hillside Village, Corsica
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Photo © Bonhams — view this lot on Bonhams ↗Eight costume designs, to include three from Gigi, 1973
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Photo © Bonhams — view this lot on Bonhams ↗Four costume designs for Barbara Streisand as 'Fanny Brice' in Funny Girl, 1968
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Bonhams · Jun 3, 2025£7,680 ≈ $10,366 ≈ €9,104Sign up free to see price
Photo © Bonhams — view this lot on Bonhams ↗Seven costume designs for opera and ballet, to include examples for The Sleeping Beauty, 1946 and The Marriage of Figaro, 1955
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