25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Pictures, Prints & Sculptures
Stephen Tennant (British 1906-1986)
Dandies, Club Sans-Souci (Bingo in the Lounge)
watercolour and ink
43 x 32.2 cm, framed and glazed 61 x 48 cm
The Property of the Late Christopher Hobbs
Christopher Hobbs (1941-2024) was a talented artist and production designer working on films as varied as Edward II, The Long Day Closes, Jubilee, Velvet Goldmine and Mansfield Park. He had studied at the Slade before turning his hand to prop design for Ken Russell’s 1971 witchcraft drama The Devils. It was there that he worked alongside Derek Jarman and the pair went on the work on several films together including Caravaggio and The Last of England. His final screen work, the BBC television serial of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast (2000), for which he created more than 100 sets, brought him the Royal Television Society’s best production design award. “It’s impossible not to admire the stunning visual imagination of Christopher Hobbs,” wrote the critic Steve Grant.
Sold for £550
Condition Report
In fairly good colour. The sheet has been laid to card. There is a 5cm repaired tear to the centre of the left edge, and a smaller 2cm tear near the centre of right edge. There are a few small losses to the edges visible, and several small tears and creases to edges and corners. There appears to be a soft horizontal crease along the upper third of the sheet. There is some cockling to the upper quarter of the sheet, probbaly caused by the glue used to fix the sheet to the card. Some spots of surface dirt.
Stephen Tennant (British 1906-1986)
Dandies, Club Sans-Souci (Bingo in the Lounge)
watercolour and ink
43 x 32.2 cm, framed and glazed 61 x 48 cm
The Property of the Late Christopher Hobbs
Christopher Hobbs (1941-2024) was a talented artist and production designer working on films as varied as Edward II, The Long Day Closes, Jubilee, Velvet Goldmine and Mansfield Park. He had studied at the Slade before turning his hand to prop design for Ken Russell’s 1971 witchcraft drama The Devils. It was there that he worked alongside Derek Jarman and the pair went on the work on several films together including Caravaggio and The Last of England. His final screen work, the BBC television serial of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast (2000), for which he created more than 100 sets, brought him the Royal Television Society’s best production design award. “It’s impossible not to admire the stunning visual imagination of Christopher Hobbs,” wrote the critic Steve Grant.
