Chiswick Auctions to offer Sally Jacobs costume designs for major UK stage productions, May 24

Sally Jacobs (1932-2020), original 1965 design for costume worn by Ian Holm in Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘Twelfth Night,’ from a group lot of 41 costume designs for stage productions. Estimate £3,000-£4,000 ($3,745-$4,990)

LONDON – An archive containing hundreds of stage costume designs by Sally Jacobs (1932-2020) are featured in Chiswick Auctions’ Books and Works on Paper sale slated for May 24. One of the lots (Lot 161), which includes mixed-media designs for important stage Royal Shakespeare Company productions from the 1960s, is expected to sell for £18,000-£22,000 ($22,465-$27,460).

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