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THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913-2000, Welsh poet)

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

£500 - £600

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THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913-2000, Welsh poet)

PORTRAIT BY CHRISTOPHER BARKER (b.1943) photograph, silver print, full length, seated in a Windsor chair, logs stacked behind him. three-quarters turned to the left looking back into the camera, with an intense expression on his face, signed by the photographer on the verso, and with his stamp, framed and glazed, size of image 15 x 12 inches (40 x 30 cm), overall size 23 x 18 inches (57 x 45 cm), Wales, 1986 (printed later)

This fine portrait was among the out-takes shot for Christopher Barker's Portraits of Poets, 1986. but was not used there and has remained unpublished; no example of it is in the National Portrait Gallery.

Christopher Barker records that the shot was taken in a room in Thomas's cottage with a huge inglenook fireplace and piles of logs with the saw mill's logo stamped on the ends of them. 'He never really appeared at ease, seemingly irritated by the attention and not once could I get him to smile.'

PROVENANCE: Christopher Barker.

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