The Art of Performance
Theatre
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9 Brett Hilder
Kate Fitzpatrick in "Lady of the Camellias", 1980/2002. Photograph, silver gelatin print, signed in the margin below right, 25.8 x 17.5cm.
Sydney Theatre Company production of Alexandre Dumas's play, directed by Rex Cramphorne. Fitzpatrick played Marguerite Gautier.

$825
10 Dame Laura Knight
At the Footlights, 1923. Etching and aquatint, edition of 80, signed, 20.1 x 14.9cm.
Bolling & Withington #5.

$1,350
11 Francis Lymburner
The Actor's Make-up, c.1960. Pen & ink, signed lower right, 25 x 16cm.

$990
12 Angus McBean
Anthony Quayle as Mosca, c.1940s. Photo-graph, silver gelatin print, studio stamp verso, 22 x 17.5cm.
Quayle as Mosca in Ben Jonson's comic and satirical drama "Volpone", 1606.

$880
13 Angus McBean
Anthony Quayle as Corialanus, c.1940s. Photo-graph, silver gelatin print, studio stamp verso, 22.2 x 17.5cm.
Anthony Quayle as the lead in Shakespeare's drama "Corialanus" (1608).

$880
14 Angus McBean
Romeo & Juliet, Stratford Festival, 1947. Photograph, silver gelatin print, signed (faintly) lower left, 29.8 x 37.5cm.
The Peter Brook production starred Paul Schofield. This photograph shows the supposed death scene of Juliet (Daphne Slater) with Capulet (Vernon Turleigh) and the nurse (Beatrix Lehman). Brook is quoted as saying, "It is a play of wide spaces in which all scenery and decoration easily becomes an irrelevance."

$990
15 Angus McBean
Vivien Leigh, c.1938. Photograph, silver gelatin print, studio stamp verso, 24 x 19cm.
Taken just before her role in Gone with the Wind.

$990
16 Robert McFarlane
Garry McDonald as Mo. Nimrod Theatre 10th Birthday, 1981/2000. Photograph, silver gelatin print, 30.5 x 19.7cm.

$825