DOROTHY CARLETON SMYTH (1880-1933)
GROUP OF FOUR COSTUME DESIGNS FOR BORIS GODOUNOV, 1912
£693
Auction: 11 October 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
pen & ink and watercolour, titled TYPES OF POLISH LORDS & LADIES/ BORIS; THE PRETENDER DMITRI/ BORIS; THE NURSE/ BORIS; and THE TSAREWITCH(sic) FEODOR/ BORIS, three signed and dated 1912, one unsigned
Dimensions
each approx. 25cm x 22.5cm (frame 39cm x 33.5cm)
Footnote
Note: Dorothy Carleton Smyth attended the Glasgow School of Art from 1895 to 1905 and, while principally excelling in theatre and costume design, was also skilled in the design of stained glass, sculpture, painting and metalwork. She became Principal of Commercial Art at the school in 1914. She was named, in 1933, as Glasgow School of Art's first female director, before her untimely death the same year.