![]() ![]() No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2022. The highest price recorded for the artist is $39,100 for The Betrothed 1949 sold by Deutscher~Menzies in April 1999. In our database, 257 works by Loudon Sainthill are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 1971, of which 155 (60%) were sold. He held his first solo exhibition in 1939 and in the same year travelled to London where he was to spend much of his career designing sets for Sadlers Wells and other London theatres. In the early 1930s he gained a reputation as an artist and theatrical designer, designing a number of sets for the Australian Ballet. Please note that we normally offer this service for lots with an estimate of £500 or higher and all telephone bid requests must be received by close of business the day before the auction.Born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1919, Loudon Sainthill studied at the Melbourne Technical College (now RMIT University). We will contact you during the sale and one of our team will bid live with you over the phone. Once our team have entered your bid request you will receive an email confirmation. If you would like to bid by telephone please contact our team prior to the auction with your details of the lots you are interested in and your full name, address, telephone number(s) and email address. There is no additional charge for this service.įor further instructions on registering to bid live, please click here. A 'Bid Live' button will appear on the auction on our website homepage when a sale is live simply click the button to sign in or register with your card details. It is easy to register and you can watch the auction live as it happens. You can bid live at our auctions from the comfort of your home or office using bidding platform Sworders Live. Thereafter you may register bank card details under your account in order to bid live. If you would like to leave a commission bid on our website you can do so up until 30 minutes before the sale starts. Leaving a commission bid through .uk is free for all registered clients. Please note when we receive two or more absentee bids for the same amount, the first bid received will be the one taken. You can leave an absentee bid up to half an hour before the start of any sale. We will bid up to that limit for you, and remember you may end up paying less than your limit, depending on other bidding on the day. The amount you bid should be your maximum bid. You can leave an absentee bid on our website. If you cannot attend the auction in person we can bid on your behalf. When registering in person we require photo ID, such as a passport or driving licence. To bid in person at auction for the first time please register for a bidding paddle in advance by filling out and submitting a registration form at our front desk. Take advantage of our Sworders Delivery Service. ![]() During his lifetime, he worked on more than fifty productions, and published multiple books of his designs and paintings with his partner, Miller, enabling his innovative and vibrant designs to live on to inspire future generations. Sainthill later won a Tony for his work on 'The Canterbury Tales' (1967). One of his most celebrated projects was for the set and costume designs of 'Le Coq d’Or' at the Royal Opera House, Sainthill being given this commission after Marc Chagall suddenly withdrew from the project. Returning to London in 1949, Sainthill’s career took off he designed for the ballet 'Ile des Sirenes' starring Margot Fonteyn (1950) and then 'The Tempest' at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (1951). ![]() He was discharged in 1946 and briefly lived with Miller in Merioola, which was also the home of a group of artists including Alec Murray, Jocelyn Rickards and Donald Friend. This success was followed by exhibitions in Australia.ĭuring the Second World War, Sainthill served with the Australian Army. His paintings of the dancers garnered attention and, in 1939, he was invited to London to exhibit at the Redfern Gallery. His love of theatre design began in Australia, where he designed for touring ballets. He was born in Tasmania, but moved to Melbourne where he met his lifelong partner, Harry Karl Tatlock Miller (1913-1989). Provenance: Bequeathed to the current owner by Alfred Hecht.Īrtist, costume and set designer, Loudon Sainthill lived a life designing for stars of the ballet, opera, theatre and film. A work from the same series of 'The Musicians' and dated 1958 is in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia. ![]()
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