{"id":4523,"date":"2017-02-07T16:18:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/?post_type=product&#038;p=4523"},"modified":"2023-02-28T21:52:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T02:52:47","slug":"costume-design-musical-bajour-gypsy-children-freddy-wittop-vintage-watercolor","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/product\/costume-design-musical-bajour-gypsy-children-freddy-wittop-vintage-watercolor\/","title":{"rendered":"Costume Design, Musical, Bajour, Gypsy Children, Freddy Wittop, Vintage Watercolor, c. 1964"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bajour <\/strong>starred Chita Rivera, Herschel Bernardi and Nancy Dussault \u2014 who was nominated for a Tony for her performance \u2014 and was written by Ernest Kinoy with lyrics by Walter Marks. The original cast album was reissued on CD in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Freddy Wittop was born Federico Rey in Holland and raised in Paris. When he was eleven years old, he began his career as a costume designer for the Brussels Opera. Later he worked for the Folies Bergere in Paris. He immigrated to the United States in 1942 and designed costumes for the French Casino in New York City, and was a professional dancer as well. After World War II, he became one of the leading Broadway costume designers, his credits including George Bernard Shaw&#8217;s <strong>Heartbreak House, Holiday on Ice, Carnival, Subways are for Sleeping, The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd, Bajour, <\/strong>and, most notably,<strong> Hello Dolly! <\/strong>for which he won the Tony Award for Costume Design. He was nominated six times for the Tony for his designs.<\/p>\n<p>The largest collection of Wittop\u2019s works belongs to the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia, comprising a collection of 27 of his scrapbooks with sketches, photographs, and personal memorabilia from 1927 to 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Condition: Generally very good, the colors bright, with minor overall toning, wear and handling. Some minor paint stains, probably as issued, left margin, can be matted out.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBajour.\u201d <em>Internet Broadway Database. <\/em>2001-2004. http:\/\/www.ibdb.com\/show.asp?ID=1803 (31 July 2003).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreddy Wittop.\u201d <em>Internet Broadway Database. <\/em>2001-2004. http:\/\/www.ibdb.com\/person.asp?ID=24874 (11 May 2005).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreddy Wittop and <em>Dear World.\u201dHargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.<\/em> 20 September 2001. http:\/\/www.libs.uga.edu\/hargrett\/pexhibit\/wittop.html (31 July 2003).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome Leading Designers and influencers of Sixties fashions.\u201d <em>Sixties City.<\/em> http:\/\/www.sixtiescity.com\/Fashion\/Design.htm (11 May 2005).<\/p>\n<p>Wright, Adrian. \u201cCD Reviews: Bajour.\u201d <em>Musical-Theatre.Net.<\/em> http:\/\/www.musical-theatre.net\/html\/cdreviews\/bajour.html (31 July 2003).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freddy Wittop (1912-2001)<br \/>\n<strong>[Gypsy Children Costume Design for <em>Bajour]<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nAmerican: c. 1964<br \/>\nPencil and gouache on artist\u2019s board<br \/>\nSigned and inscribed lower right: \u201cFor Arthur Gerold warmest regards Freddy Wittop\u201d<br \/>\nCollection of Arthur &amp; Marilyn Gerold, New Hope, PA<br \/>\n20 x 15 inches, overall<br \/>\n$450<\/p>\n<p><em>Search our site for other Freddy Wittop costume prints.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brilliantly colored drawing costume design of a young man and two girls in patchwork gypsy style clothing by Freddy Wittop for <strong>Bajour,<\/strong> a Broadway musical that ran for 232 performances from November 23,1964 to June12, 1965 at the Shubert Theatre and Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York City. <strong>Bajour <\/strong>was based on a series of short stories about gypsies published in the <strong>New Yorker<\/strong> magazine. An unsigned companion work by Wittop, depicting a Gypsy woman, is available from our gallery. Wittop\u2019s adaptation of so-called gypsy motifs is typical of 1960s fashion trends influenced by the ethnic clothing adopted by hippie culture; Oscar de la Renta, Yves Saint Laurent and Ossie Clark were among the fashion designers known for producing gypsy-influenced apparel in that decade.<\/p>\n<p>Product description continues below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4524,"template":"","meta":{"wds_primary_product_brand":0,"wds_primary_product_cat":0,"footnotes":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[949,947],"product_tag":[61,59,1054,2216,2213,2169,2125,1863,743,2214,2217,2168,1859,1860,1858,1542,2215],"class_list":{"0":"post-4523","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-fashion","7":"product_cat-music-performing-arts","8":"product_tag-20th-century","9":"product_tag-american","10":"product_tag-art","11":"product_tag-bajour","12":"product_tag-broadway","13":"product_tag-comedy","14":"product_tag-costume","15":"product_tag-design","16":"product_tag-drawing","17":"product_tag-freddy","18":"product_tag-gypsy","19":"product_tag-musical","20":"product_tag-theater","21":"product_tag-theatre","22":"product_tag-theatrical","23":"product_tag-watercolor","24":"product_tag-wittop","25":"post","26":"post-with-thumbnail","27":"post-with-thumbnail-large","29":"first","30":"instock","31":"purchasable","32":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37495,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4523\/revisions\/37495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}