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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.
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 film. 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 New York City, he designed several covers for The New Yorker (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 the Cimarron.
