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HEANEY, SEAMUS (b. 1939, Irish poet)

10 April 2013, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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HEANEY, SEAMUS (b. 1939, Irish poet)

PORTRAIT BY JOHN MINIHAN (b. 1944), vintage photograph, silver print, half length, head declined, seated reading, inscribed by John Minihan below the image 'Seamus Heaney photographed in his Dublin home for his 70th birthday 2009, John Minihan', photographer's stamp on verso similarly inscribed and signed as on the recto, framed and glazed, size of image 16 x 12 inches (40 x 30 cm), 22 x 19 inches (57 x 48 cm), Dublin, 2009

No example of this fine image is in the National Portrait Gallery.

PROVENANCE: John Minihan.

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