Osbert Lancaster

Lot 518 Lot 518 Description Sir Osbert Lancaster (British, 1908-1986) Candide - set of three theatrical set designs, circa 1959 each inscribed verso 'Candide' and one dated, gouache the largest 14 1/2" x 20" (3). Candide opened at the Saville Theatre, London on April 30 1959 after runs at the New Theatre, Oxford, and the Opera House, Manchester. It ran for 60 performances and starred Denis Quilley. Osbert Lancaster designed the sets and costumes. Sold for £3,600 Additional Illustrations Print-friendly version of this page Jump to lot number

OSBERT LANCASTER (1908-1986) "I'VE A NASTY FEELING, DARLING, THAT SOMEBODY'S DEARLY LOVED MONSTER IS NOT QUITE WHAT IT WAS!" Signed, inscribed with title verso, black ink with brush and nib, with blue crayon 24.5 x 13.5cm. Estimate: 200-300 A few minor old creases and a pale damp marks

Sir Osbert Lancaster CBE1908-1986- "Is Mr Peter Wilson Aware....."; original artworkillustration possibly intended for publication, pen andcoloured ink, signed and with typed caption, 25x14cm: Early 20th Century- Humorous caricature of an academicfigure; pen and black ink, inscribed verso, (2)(part unframed) Note: A Cartoonist, author, artcritic and stage designer, best known for his cartoonspublished in the The Daily Express. He initially worked withBetjeman at the Architectural Review In 1936 he published Progressat Pelvis Bay, the first of his many books of social andarchitectural satire. In 1939 he became cartoonist at the DailyExpress, where he pioneered the Pocket Cartoon, atopical single-panel single-column drawing appearing on the frontpage, since imitated in several British newspapers. Inthese he sympathetically mocked the British upper classes, personified by his characters William (8th Earl ofLittlehampton, formerly Viscount Draynflete) and his wifeMaudie. During his Express career he drew some 10,000 cartoons overa period of 40 years Plus Vat on hammer price £100-200

Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908-1986) Set design for All's Well That Ends Well: A view of Florence with inscription 'O.Lancaster/Backcloth/All's Well That EndsWell/Old Vic.' (on the reverse) pencil, watercolour and bodycolour, unframed 12½ x 19 in. (31.8 x 48.3 cm.) Lot Notes Osbert Lancaster worked as a cartoonist, painter and author,producing designs and costumes for theatre, opera and ballet. Theseincluded La Fille mal garde for The Royal Ballet, L'italiana inAlgeri and Falstaff for Glyndebourne and Hotel Paradiso, Zulrika,and Candide for the theatre. The present work was part ofLancaster's set design for All's Well That Ends Well which wasperformed at the Old Vic in 1953. A volume of the play waspublished in 1963 with illustrations and an introduction byLancaster.

264. Lancaster (Osbert, 1908-1986 ) Let me recall the warning..., a veryelderly member stands up to address the House of Lords, railingagainst the abolition of the rack, pen and black ink, 220 x330mm.,, including a conjugate leaf of pencil text, upper halfcrossed out, rewritten below, dated stock ink stamp below, framedand glazed, 1956; with 2 others on university life, by StarrWood and Marjorie Brooks, Lady Holford; and another (4)