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 308AR

MACNEICE, LOUIS (1907-1963, Irish poet) and T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965)

8 May 2013, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£1,200 - £1,800

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

MACNEICE, LOUIS (1907-1963, Irish poet) and T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965)

JOINT PORTRAIT BY MARK GERSON (b. 1921), vintage photograph, silver print, half length, MacNeice in three-quarters profile facing left, Eliot turned to the right looking down into the camera, Valerie Eliot and Stephen Spender rather out of focus in the background, signed on the mount by Mark Gerson and inscribed 'London', his stamp on the verso, framed and glazed, size of image 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25.5 cm), overall size 14 x 15 inches (37 x 39 cm), Faber's, 23 June 1960

No example of this photograph, which is believed to be unpublished, is in the National Portrait Gallery; one from the same shoot showing MacNeice on his own is in the collection.

This photograph was taken at the Faber party on 23 June 1960. See lot 332.

PROVENANCE: Mark Gerson.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

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.

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

CORNELIUS, MATTHEWS, editor. 1817-1889. The Enchanted Moccasins and Other Legends of the American Indians.

CALEPINO, AMBROGIO. 1435-1511. [Dictionarium.] Calepinus Ad librum. Mos est putidas.... Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, January 3, 1509.

HEARN, LAFCADIO. 1850-1904. [Japanese Fairy Tales.] Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith, [But Tokyo: T. Hasegawa,] [c.1931].

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. 1899-1961. PUTNAM, SAMUEL, translator. Kiki's Memoirs. Paris: Sign of the Black Manikin, 1930.