André Delfau French 1914-2000
Two Young Men in the Woods, 1933

£2,000

Watercolour and gouache on paper
signed and dated (lower right)
35cm × 44cm (50cm × 58cm framed)

Born in Paris, Andre Delfau was a French artist, and internationally acclaimed stage set and costume designer who worked world-wide from the 1930s to the 1980s. Early in his career, Delfau created fashion designs for such major Paris couture houses as Balmain, Jean Patou and Balenciaga. He completed set designs and costumes for the Royal Danish Ballet, the Royal Ballet of Great Britain, the Paris Opera, the Dance Theater of Harlem, the Ruth Page International Ballet, the Civic Ballet of Chicago, the Chicago Opera Ballet and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, among others. He also created works with an overriding homoerotic flavour, which would have been for a considerably more select and private audience.