Peter Snow 1927-2008

Margaret Barbieri as Swan Hilda from Coppelia

Watercolour on Paper

Signed

41x59cm

Original Costume Design for the Royal Ballet

Taken from the Guardian Newspaper 6th September 2008

Peter Snow was one of the most imaginative, unconventional, erudite and versatile British artists and designers of the past half-century. As well as solo exhibitions and numerous group show appearances, he designed widely for plays, operas and the ballet and formed and ran an enterprising theatre company. In 1955, he designed the first English production of Beckett's Waiting for Godot for Peter Hall.

Snow was one of a gifted group who studied stage design under Robert Medley at the Slade School of Fine Art, a department he eventually took over and ran with distinction for 25 years. At art school and the theatre, he made a huge circle of friends who admired his talent, irreverent humour and definite opinions continued >>>>