Lot 119: YOLANDA SONNABEND (BRITISH, B.1935) - FEMALE MASK

YOLANDA SONNABEND (BRITISH, B.1935)
FEMALE MASK
leather
36cm, 14 1/4in high
Yolanda Sonnabend attended the Académie des Beaux Arts, Geneva (1951) studied painting and stage design at the Slade (1955-60), taught at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, the Slade, the Central School and Wimbledon. A painter and set and costume designer for ballet, opera, theatre, television and film, she has worked for the Royal Opera House and the Royal Ballet, as well as Sadler's Wells, the Oxford Playhouse and the Stuttgart Ballet Company. As well as being included in 'Twenty Years' of BRITISH Stage design, a BRITISH Council show which toured Europe, she has exhibited paintings and designs in London, Paris, Verona, Cologne and Milan. In 2000 she won the Garrick-Milne prize for theatrical portrait painting. The making of these leather theatrical masks is a traditional art which she learned in Vienna from an old craftsman. Provenance: Purchased from the artist's one-person exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London, November 1985.