$20,160
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
Auction: May 11, 2021 12:00:00 PM EDT
Signed bottom right, titled at center, and dedicated bottom left 'pour Nancy avec toute mon affection,' ink, wash and pastel on paper.
Unframed
Provenance
The Artist/Designer.
Nancy White, New York, New York (gifted from the above).
Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois (by family descent).
Note
The present work, a costume design executed by fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent was likely created for the 1965 ballet, Notre-Dame de Paris, choreographed by Roland Petit. The present work, depicting two flamboyantly dressed dancers is dedicated to Nancy White, editor of the influential women’s fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar from 1958-1971. White was an unusual female presence at the top echelons of the elite fashion world, and her vision was clear. In Harper's Bazaar: 100 Years of the American Female (Random House, 1967), White relays that before her first day at the magazine she jotted down the traits with which she sought to imbue the pages of the magazine: “authority, awareness, wit, spirit, surprise, curiosity, intelligence, timing, food for thought, vitality, balance and youth.”