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Signed bottom right haute couture costume design in gouache, ink, pencil and charcoal on paper.

Yolanda studied painting and stage design at the Slade and worked as theatre and ballet designer for the Royal Opera House, the Royal Ballet, Sadlers Wells, the Oxford Playhouse. After she moved into 30 Hamilton Terrace in St Johns Wood, she collaborated with Kenneth Macmillan for 30 years. She painted many portraits – of him, of Stephen Hawking. There are nine of her portraits in the National Portrait Gallery.

Most of Sonnabend’s designs are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Opera House and The Theatre Collection at Bristol University.