BRYAN ROBERTSON 'LOUDON SAINTHILL' 1973 (FIRST EDITION)
Born in Tasmania in 1913, Loudon Sainthill became an internationally successful artist and sought-after theatre designer. With his partner Harry Tatlock-Miller – journalist, art critic and early director of London’s Redfern Gallery – Sainthill lived variously in Belgravia, Hampshire, and at Merioola, a Victorian mansion and artist colony in Sydney’s Woollahra, home of the “Sydney Charm School” derided by Robert Hughes. Inspired by the 1930s Australian tours of the Ballet Russes, Sainthill went on to design sets for productions by Robert Helpman and Dame Margot Fonteyn. Described as opulent, sumptuous and exuberantly splendid, Sainthill’s designs became the favourite of many high profile directors in Australia and London, and he designed celebrated productions for numerous esteemed stages including the Old Vic and the Royal Opera House. His first U.K. exhibition, studies of dancers and choreographers painted during the long sea voyage to London, was held at the Redfern Gallery in 1939. Often sombre and unapologetically romantic, Bryan Robertson wrote that what Sainthill did, worked “simply because of his intense imagination and a particular dark, glittering personal magic.”
Title: Loudon Sainthill
Author: With an appreciation by Bryan Robertson, edited by Harry Tatlock Miller
Publisher: Hutchinson, London
Publication Date: 1973 (First Edition)
Pages: 64pp
Size: 24.5 x 31.0cm.
Format: Hardcover
Condition: Good. A few isolated spots to of the spreads. Green cloth-covered board with gilt titles to spine.
Dust-jacket condition: Good. One or two small closed tears but otherwise in good condition.
Born in Tasmania in 1913, Loudon Sainthill became an internationally successful artist and sought-after theatre designer. With his partner Harry Tatlock-Miller – journalist, art critic and early director of London’s Redfern Gallery – Sainthill lived variously in Belgravia, Hampshire, and at Merioola, a Victorian mansion and artist colony in Sydney’s Woollahra, home of the “Sydney Charm School” derided by Robert Hughes. Inspired by the 1930s Australian tours of the Ballet Russes, Sainthill went on to design sets for productions by Robert Helpman and Dame Margot Fonteyn. Described as opulent, sumptuous and exuberantly splendid, Sainthill’s designs became the favourite of many high profile directors in Australia and London, and he designed celebrated productions for numerous esteemed stages including the Old Vic and the Royal Opera House. His first U.K. exhibition, studies of dancers and choreographers painted during the long sea voyage to London, was held at the Redfern Gallery in 1939. Often sombre and unapologetically romantic, Bryan Robertson wrote that what Sainthill did, worked “simply because of his intense imagination and a particular dark, glittering personal magic.”
Title: Loudon Sainthill
Author: With an appreciation by Bryan Robertson, edited by Harry Tatlock Miller
Publisher: Hutchinson, London
Publication Date: 1973 (First Edition)
Pages: 64pp
Size: 24.5 x 31.0cm.
Format: Hardcover
Condition: Good. A few isolated spots to of the spreads. Green cloth-covered board with gilt titles to spine.
Dust-jacket condition: Good. One or two small closed tears but otherwise in good condition.
Born in Tasmania in 1913, Loudon Sainthill became an internationally successful artist and sought-after theatre designer. With his partner Harry Tatlock-Miller – journalist, art critic and early director of London’s Redfern Gallery – Sainthill lived variously in Belgravia, Hampshire, and at Merioola, a Victorian mansion and artist colony in Sydney’s Woollahra, home of the “Sydney Charm School” derided by Robert Hughes. Inspired by the 1930s Australian tours of the Ballet Russes, Sainthill went on to design sets for productions by Robert Helpman and Dame Margot Fonteyn. Described as opulent, sumptuous and exuberantly splendid, Sainthill’s designs became the favourite of many high profile directors in Australia and London, and he designed celebrated productions for numerous esteemed stages including the Old Vic and the Royal Opera House. His first U.K. exhibition, studies of dancers and choreographers painted during the long sea voyage to London, was held at the Redfern Gallery in 1939. Often sombre and unapologetically romantic, Bryan Robertson wrote that what Sainthill did, worked “simply because of his intense imagination and a particular dark, glittering personal magic.”
Title: Loudon Sainthill
Author: With an appreciation by Bryan Robertson, edited by Harry Tatlock Miller
Publisher: Hutchinson, London
Publication Date: 1973 (First Edition)
Pages: 64pp
Size: 24.5 x 31.0cm.
Format: Hardcover
Condition: Good. A few isolated spots to of the spreads. Green cloth-covered board with gilt titles to spine.
Dust-jacket condition: Good. One or two small closed tears but otherwise in good condition.
