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Behind the Curtain: The Tony Walton Collection - Day 3
Description
Behind the Curtain: The Tony Walton Collection includes more than 700 lots from the estate of theatre and film designer Tony Walton. Day three of this three day sale includes items from Walton's personal collection. A large collection of theatre posters and window cards, including many designed by Tony Walton, is among the highlights. Day three also includes original artwork, books, awards, and a large selection of Playbills from throughout Walton's career. A selection of tin litho and other toys rounds out day three. Willow Auction House is proud to present Behind the Curtain: The Tony Walton Collection. For more than 60 years, Tony Walton designed costumes and sets for some of Broadways most notable productions, including Chicago, Annie Get Your Gun, and Guys and Dolls. A Tony, Oscar and Emmy Award winner, he also worked on films such as All That Jazz and The Wiz, and designed for off-Broadway and regional theater productions, ballets and operas.
Auction lots (209)
Tony Walton 2 Acrylic on Paper Portraits
Tony Walton (British, 1934-2022). 2 acrylic abstracts, portraits. Unsigned. Matted, unframed. Each 12 5/8" x 9 3/4" (with mat 20...
Tony Walton Mixed Media Abstract Portrait
Tony Walton (British, 1934-2022). Mixed media on paper, abstract portrait. Signed lower right. 23 1/4" x 17 3/4" (with frame 29"...
Tony Walton Mixed Media Abstract
Tony Walton (British, 1934-2022). Mixed media with acrylic on illustration board, abstract. Unsigned. 28" x 21 1/2". Board...
Tony Walton 4 Acrylics on Paper
Tony Walton (British, 1934-2022). Group of 4 acrylic on paper abstracts. All unsigned. Outside of portfolio labeled in Tony...
Tony Walton Acrylic Guinevere
Tony Walton (British, 1934-2022). Acrylic painting, Guinevere. Initialed TW and dated 65 lower right and with Wright Hepburn...
Tony Walton Acrylic Self Portrait
Tony Walton (British, 1934-2022). Acrylic painting, Self-Portrait. Initialed TW and dated '65 lower right and with Wright Hepburn...
Tony Walton Collage With Inscription
Tony Walton (British, 1934-2022). Collage with cut paper. With inscription, possibly to Bob Fosse, in ink: "Well, The Old...
After JMW Turner Acrylic on Canvas Tempest
After Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775-1851). Acrylic on canvas, ship at sea, Tempest. Initialed S.E. (?) lower right...
Ellsworth Kelly Style Oil on Canvas Abstract
In the style of Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015). Oil on canvas, geometric abstract with blue and white. Unsigned. 48" x 35...
Rooster Mixed Media Sculpture
Rooster wall hanging sculpture. Mixed media with wood, metal, paint and other materials. 42" x 32". As is, with paint loss and...
Wood & Metal Bird Set Design Element
Tony Walton (British, 1934-2022). Unknown production. Set design piece, birds. Mixed media with wood, metal, painted canvas. 17"H...
Wood Sculpture of a Dancer
Wood sculpture of a dancer. On a mirrored pedestal base. Unsigned. Figure 31"H, with base 61"H. Cracks to both arms, crack to one...
10 Theater Awards
Group of 10 theater awards. Including 1992 New England Theatre Conference for Achievement in Theatre, 2004 United States...
25+ Award & Nomination Certificates
Group of 25+ award and nomination certificates. All mounted on foam board. Including 5 "Who's Who in the World" awards from the...
4 Awards SETC, Directors Guild, NY Telephone
Group of 4 awards. Southeastern Theatre Conference Inc. 2012 Distinguished Career award - Tony Walton 7" x 6 3/4" x 6 3/4", Gen...
Collection of Vintage Playbills 1950s-1970s
Collection of vintage playbills, 1950s-1970s. 3 binders, most for productions Tony Walton worked on or with artwork by Tony...
500+ 1970s-2000s Playbills
Group of 500+ Playbills, 1970s-2000s. Most for shows Tony Walton worked on. In 4 bins. Bin one: 1970-1989, containing Playbills...
Group of Playbills 10 Binders 1990-2009
Large group of Playbills, shows 1990-2009. In 10 binders, various productions including theater, ballet, and other productions....
Group of Playbills 11 Binders 2010-2018
Large group of Playbills, 11 binders 2010-2018, various productions including theater, ballet and other shows. Most binders...
Group of Playbills 9 Binders All Tony Walton Shows
Group of Playbills, all for shows Tony Walton worked on. Collection of 9 binders, most containing 10+ Playbills and some with...
Group of 35 Records Various Productions
Group of 35 records for various productions, most shows Tony Walton worked on, including The Tempest, Anything Goes, Camelot, The...
Greeting Cards, Postcards Various Productions
Collection of greeting cards and postcards from various shows. Christmas cards including 70 "Ghost of Christmas Present" and 125+...
13 Theater & Ballet Posters Broadway, Regional
Group of 13 vintage 1980s-2000s posters and window cards, various shows including Broadway, off-Broadway, ballet, regional, West...
21 Theater Posters & Window Cards
Group of 21 theater posters and window cards. Various productions, including Broadway, off-Broadway, regional, touring, ballet,...
18 Theater & Ballet Posters, Prints
Group of 18 vintage posters, prints and window cards, 1980s-2000s. Various productions, including Broadway, off-Broadway,...
12 Theater Posters & Prints, Ballet, Regional
Group of 12 vintage posters, prints and window cards, 1980s-2000s. Various productions, including Broadway, off-Broadway,...
10+ Theater & Ballet Posters
Group of 10+ vintage posters and window cards, 1980s-2000s. Various productions, including Broadway, off-Broadway, regional,...
13 Theater & Ballet Posters
Group of 12 vintage posters and window cards, 1980s-2000s. Various productions, including Broadway, off-Broadway, regional,...
11 Theater & Ballet Posters Broadway, Regional
Group of 11 vintage 1980s-2000s posters and window cards, various shows including Broadway, off-Broadway, regional, ballet. Most...
10 Theater & Ballet Posters
Lot of 10 vintage 1970s and 1980s posters and window cards, various production including Broadway, off-Broadway, touring, ballet....
16 Theater & Ballet Posters
Group of 16 vintage posters and window cards, 1970s-2000s. Various productions, including Broadway, regional, West End, ballet....
15 Theater & Ballet Posters
Lot of 15 vintage 1980s-2000s posters and window cards, various productions including Broadway, off-Broadway, regional, ballet....
15 Theater & Ballet Posters
Lot of 15 vintage 1980s-2000s posters and window cards, various productions including Broadway, off-Broadway, regional, ballet....
10 Theater & Ballet Posters Broadway, Off-Broadway
Group of 10 vintage 1980s and 90s posters and window cards, various shows including Broadway, off-Broadway, West End, regional,...
10 Theater & Ballet Posters Broadway, Off-Broadway
Group of 10 vintage 1980s and 90s posters and window cards, various shows including Broadway, off-Broadway, regional, touring,...
10 Theater, Opera & Ballet Posters
Group of 10 vintage 1980s-2000s posters and window cards, various shows including Broadway, off-Broadway, West End, regional,...
10 Theater Posters 1960s-70s
Group of 10 vintage 1960s and 1970s posters and window cards, various shows, including Broadway, off-Broadway, West End. Most are...
11 Theater Posters, Ballet, Regional
Group of 11 vintage 1980s-2000s posters and window cards, various shows, including Broadway, off-Broadway, regional, ballet. Most...
11 Theater Posters, Ballet, Regional
Group of 11 vintage 1980s-2000s posters and window cards, various shows, including Broadway, off-Broadway, regional, ballet. Most...
10+ Theater & Ballet Posters
Group of 10+ vintage posters and window cards, 1980s-2000s. Various productions, including Broadway, off-Broadway, regional,...
15 Theater, TV & Ballet Posters, Prints
Group of 15 vintage posters, prints and window cards, 1980s-2000s. Various productions, including television, Broadway, regional,...
12 Theater & Ballet Posters
Group of 12 vintage posters and window cards, 1980s-2000s. Various productions, including Broadway, off-Broadway, ballet. All are...
10+ Theater Posters, Ballet, Regional
Group of 10+ vintage posters and window cards, 1980s-2000s. Various productions, including Broadway, West End, off-Broadway,...
SF Ballet 50th Season 17 Posters
Tony Walton (British, 1934-2022). Michael Smuin's Stravinsky Piano Pieces (ballet). Group of 17 posters including 5 window cards,...
18 Theater Posters, Ballet, Regional
Group of 18 vintage posters and window cards, 1970s-2000s. Various productions, including Broadway, off-Broadway, regional,...
3 Theater Posters If Love Were All, Will Rogers
3 vintage Broadway and off-Broadway posters. All shows Tony Walton worked on. Jerome Robbins' Broadway (1989), If Love Were All...
3 Broadway Theater Posters
3 vintage Broadway posters. All shows Tony Walton worked on. Our Town (2003), Grand Hotel (1989), Death and the Maiden (1992)....
3 Theater Posters Square One, The Real Thing
Group of 3 vintage Broadway and off-Broadway posters, all shows Tony Walton worked on. Square One (1989), The Real Thing (1984),...
3 Ballet Posters
3 vintage ballet posters, all productions Tony Walton worked on. Les Noces (2003), San Francisco Ballet The Tempest (1980), The...
2 Theater Posters Irish Rep
2 theater poster prints, both designed by Tony Walton and for shows Tony Walton worked on. Candida (2010) and The Devil's...
7 Broadway Posters
Group of 7 Broadway posters and window cards. Betrayal (2013-2014), The Cripple of Inishmaan (2014), Casa Valentina (2014), Act...
12 Ballet Posters SF, Michael Smuin
Group of 12 ballet posters. Various years and performances. Some designed by Tony Walton and most for shows Tony Walton designed...
3 Theater Poster Prints
3 theater poster prints. Spring is Here (2009), Conversation Piece (2008), Evening Primrose (2010). Each 22" x 14". All as is and...
3 Theater Posters
3 theater posters. All designed by Tony Walton and with hand additions. Leader of the Pack (1985) with collage and gold ink,...
11 Theater Posters 1960s-70s
Group of 11 vintage posters and window cards, 1960s-1970s. Various productions, Broadway and off-Broadway. Most from shows Tony...
7 Posters, Theater, Regional, Off-Broadway
Group of 7 posters, various productions including West End, off-Broadway, regional, and concerts. Men's Lives (1992), My Fair...
3 Theater Posters Daniel Clowes, McMullan, McKowe
3 vintage theater posters and window cards. Daniel Clowes, Well, Longacre Theatre, 2006; James McMullan, The Front Page, Lincoln...
6 Vintage Movie Posters
6 vintage window cards and movie posters. The Goodbye People, Embassy Pictures, 1984; Regarding Henry, Paramount, 1991; The Glass...
5 Vintage Sidney Lumet Movie Posters 70s-80s
5 vintage window cards and movie posters. Deathtrap, Bill Gold, Warner Bros., 1982; Just Tell Me What You Want, Warner Bros.,...
Group of 7 Signed Posters
Group of 7 signed posters and window cards. Sophisticated Ladies window card signed by Tony Walton and with inscription "For Rob...
3 James McMullan Theater Window Cards
James McMullan (Canadian, 1934-). 3 vintage theater window cards. A Fair Country, Lincoln Center Theater, 1996, Six Degrees of...
3 James McMullan Theater Posters / Window Cards
James McMullan (Canadian, 1934-). 3 vintage theater posters and window cards. The House of Blue Leaves window card, Lincoln...
James McMullan 2 Posters 1 Signed
James McMullan (American, 1934-). 2 posters. Waiting for Godot, Lincoln Center Theater, 1988, signed in ink lower left and signed...
James McMullan Signed Carousel Poster
James McMullan (American, 1934-). Poster, Rodger and Hammerstein's Carousel, Lincoln Center Theater. Pencil signed lower right...
Gypsy Bernadette Peters Autographed Program
Gypsy. Program, inscribed "To Tony & Gen Love you always Bern" in silver ink on the cover. 13 1/8" x 9 1/4". Although Tony Walton...
John Alvin & Anthony Goldschmidt SOB 3 Prints
John Alvin (American, 1948-2008) and Anthony Goldschmidt (American, 1942-2014). 3 limited edition prints, S.O.B. Each pencil...
Richard Williams Charge of the Light Brigade Cels
Richard Williams (Canadian / British, 1933-2019). 8 pieces original production artwork, animation cels from The Charge of the...
2 Signed Photo Cards Barrett & Trevenlyan
2 signed photo cards, English theatre. Wilson Barrett, with inscription "Faithfully yours" and dated May 6/86, W&D Downey; Hilda...
21 Books on Stage Design and Theatre
Group of 21 books on stage design and theatre, including A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, Theatre in Revolution, A...
20 Books on Theatre Design
Group of 20 books on theatre design, including Le decor de theatre dans le monde depuis, The Theatre Art of Boris Aronson, The...
23 Books on Stage Design and Theatre Lighting
23 books on stage design and theatre lighting, including A Theatre Workbook signed by Jocelyn Herbert, Stage & Television Design...
22 Books on Stage Design and Theatre
22 books on stage design and theatre, including A Portrait of Theatre, Making the Scene, The Performing Set. All in read condition
8 Books on Theatre and Stage Design
8 books on theatre and stage design, including The Art of Hollywood Backdrop, Decors de Cinema, The New Movement in Theatre. All...
19 Books on Theatre and Design
Group of 19 books on theatre and design. Several signed and with inscriptions by author. All in read condition.
11 Books on Theatre Architecture
11 books on theatre architecture and design, including Spectacle, Contemporary Theatre Architecture, Making Space for Theatre,...
23 Books on Costume Design Many Signed
23 books on costume design, many signed. Including three copies of Costume Design: Techniques of Modern Masters, with inscription...
24 Books Costume Design & Costume Guild
24 books, including 13 books on costume design and 11 Costume Design Guild Books. Many signed and with inscriptions. All in read...
24 Books and Pamphlets on Stage and Costume Design
24 books and pamphlets on stage and costume design, including Automatic Vaudeville, Beaton the Sixties, Studio 54, Staging The...
20 Books on Fashion, Costume Design and Pin-Ups
Group of 20 books on fashion, costume design and pin-ups, including The Golden Age of Style, The Thirties in Vogue, Petty, Dream...
17 Books on Stage and Costume Design
17 books on stage and costume design, including A Fashion for Extravagance, Costumes by Karinska, The Art of Theatre and Dance....
17 Books on Broadway
Group of 17 books on Broadway, including Playbill Broadway Yearbook, Stars of the Broadway Stage, Show Time, A Producer's...
13 Book On & By Cecil Beaton
13 books on and by Cecil Beaton, including Love Cecil, Self-Portrait With Friends, The Glass of Fashion, My Royal Past. All in...
33 Books On & By Noel Coward
Group of 33 books on and by Noel Coward, including Th Noel Coward Song Book, A Talent to Amuse, After the Ball, Quadrille, Play...
37 Shakespeare Books
Group of 37 Shakespeare books, including Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, The Tempest. All in...
18 E.L. Doctorow Books Including Signed
Group of 18 E.L. Doctorow books, including City of God, The Waterworks, Essays and Conversations, Welcome to the Hard Times,...
18 Books on Hirschfeld and Rowlandson
18 books on Al Hirschfeld and Thomas Rowlandson, including Hirschfeld On Line, The Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson in the Paul...
17 Saul Steinberg Books
17 Saul Steinberg books, including The Inspector, The Discovery of America, The Passport, The Labyrinth. All in vintage read...
15 Books on Norman Rockwell
15 Books on Norman Rockwell, including Norman Rockwell's People, The Advertising World of Norman Rockwell, The Best of Norman...
17 Books By & On Max Beerbohm
Group of 17 books on and by Max Beerbohm, including The Lies of Art, Portrait of Max, Max & Will, A Peep Into the Past. All in...
13 Books by Edward Gordon Craig and Will Rogers
Group of 13 books, including 7 books by Edward Gordon Craig and 6 books on Will Rogers. Two books inscribed, and with 7 Will...
15 Books Oscar Wilde & George Bernard Shaw
Collection of Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw Books, including The Importance of Being Earnest with notes by Tony Walton, Oscar...
Collection of 26 Oscar Wilde Books
Group of 26 books on and by Oscar Wilde, including 3 volume set Oscar Wilde Folion: Stories, Plays and Poems, and Essays and...
12 Books on Orson Wells
Group of 12 books on Orson Wells, including Despite the System, The Medium and the Magician, The Films of Orson Welles, Les...
16 Books on Federico Fellini and Raoul Dufy
Group of 16 art and film books, including 8 on Federico Fellini and 8 on Raoul Dufy. All in vintage read condition.
33 Books Illustrated by Ronald Searle
33 books illustrated by Ronald Searle, including In Perspective, The Rake's Progress, Slightly Foxed, A French Affair, Souls in...
20 Books on Art Deco and Design
20 books on art deco and design, including Screen Deco, Art Deco Interiors, Nightclub Nights, Divinely Elegant, Art Deco...
2 Book Sets - Toulouse-Lautrec & Van Gogh
2 book sets, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Prints 1 and 2, in 2 volumes. And The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, in 3...
17 Books on Caricatures and Artists
17 books and caricatures and artists, including George Grosz, Masters of Caricature, Celebrity Caricature. All in vintage read...
11 Art Books
11 art books including Henri Matisse Jazz, Lizbeth Zwerger, James Montgomery Flagg, Quentin Blake Words and Pictures, Icart,...
10 Art Books
10 art books including Par Avion Sempe, Miguel Covarrubias, The Covarrubias Circle, Leon Bakst by Charles Bakst, Bakst - Theatre,...