Photo © Dreweatts — view this lot on Dreweatts ↗Costume design for banquet
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Dreweatts · Oct 28, 2025£1,700 ≈ $2,257 ≈ €1,941Sign up free to see price
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Oliver Messel (British, 1904–1978)
£2,000 hammer
≈ $2,670≈ €2,341
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- Medium
- Watercolor · Works on paper all watercolor results →As published: “watercolour”
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed (lower right), one inscribed Lisa, another indistinctly inscribed (upper right)
- Category
- Watercolors
- Dimensions
- 37 x 50cm
- Auction house
- Dreweatts
- Sale
- Modern & Contemporary Art (drewea1-10665)
- Date
- July 8, 2026
- Location
- Newbury, United Kingdom
- Lot
- 155
- Estimate
- £2,000 – £3,000 (≈ $2,670 – $4,004) (≈ €2,341 – €3,511)
- Source
- Auction house auctions.dreweatts.com ↗Retrieved Oct 11, 2026
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