Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Lot 66AR

BROWN, GEORGE MACKAY (1921-1996, Scottish poet)

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

Sold for £1,062.50 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Private & Iconic Collections and House Sales specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

BROWN, GEORGE MACKAY (1921-1996, Scottish poet)

PORTRAIT BY CHRISTOPHER BARKER (b. 1943) photograph, silver print, half length standing, slightly turned to the left and looking back into the camera, a determined look on his face, signed and stamped by the photographer on the verso, framed and glazed, size of image 16 x 12 inches (40 x 30 cm), overall size 22 x 18 inches (57 x 46 cm), Orkney, 1986 (printed later)

Christopher Barker records that he spent the evening before taking the photograph with George Mackay Brown and Peter Maxwell Davies and a few of their friends at the Kirkwall Hotel on Orkney. The next day Brown took Barker to a spot near his house, when the tide was above the high water mark and with lobster pots, ropes, chains buoys and boats in the background.

This image was taken for and is published in Christopher Barker's, Portraits of Poets, 1986.
Christopher Barker.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

Signed to Spencer Tracy 1952 Hemingway, Ernest. 1899-1961. The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

A Presentation Copy of Kennedy's First Book to Spencer Tracy. Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963. Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940.

ADVERTISING POSTERfor 'The Suffragette' newspaper, [c.1913-1914]

ILLUMINATED ADDRESS – CLARA CODD Illuminated printed address signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, [1909]

MUSIC & RECORDINGS – ETHEL SMYTH Collection of printed music, song sheets and records, [c.1911-1912]