
Penny Day
Head of UK and Ireland
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Provenance
Cyril Beaumont OBE (1891-1976), by whom bequeathed to
Jill Anne Bowden, by whom bequeathed to the present owner
Private Collection, U.K.
Cyril Beaumont OBE was a celebrated dance historian who authored more than forty books on ballet. He was president of the Cecchetti Society for many years (1923–1970), editor of Dance Journal (1924–1939) and ballet critic for the The Sunday Times (1950–1959).
We are grateful to Nicholas Newton for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.