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MAX RÉE.
Group of 3 watercolor and ink drawings of Jazz Age costume designs. Each approximately
305x165 mm; 12x6
1
/
2
inches, tipped to a larger sheet. Signed lower right and with pencil
notations listing chorus girls’ dimensions in margins.
[300/400]
Rée (1889-1953) was a Danish-born costume designer. He worked as a stage designer for
Max Reinhardt in the early 1920s before moving to the U.S. as a costume designer for MGM
in Hollywood, creating Greta Garbo’s wardrobe for Torrent and The Temptress, her first two
American films. He then moved to New York as set and costume designer for such classic
Broadway productions as Earl Carroll’s Vanities, Greenwich Village Follies, and Music Box
Revue.While in NewYork City, he designed several covers for The NewYorker (4 of which
were published in 1925). He returned to Hollywood two years later and, in 1931, won an
Academy Award for Best Art Direction for Cimarron.
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Group of 5 watercolor and ink drawings of costume designs for 1920s Broadway
productions. Each approximately 216x305 mm; 8
1
/
2
x12 inches, images, mounted to a larger
sheet. Signed lower right.
[600/900]
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