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Cecil Beaton Photographs from the Estate of Geoffrey Sawyer, Part II
Lot 139AR,Ω

Cecil Beaton
(British, 1904-1980)
Playwrights and Authors 8

20 May – 3 June 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £204.80 inc. premium

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Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980)

Playwrights and Authors, circa 1930s-1972
To include: two portraits of Noël Coward (1899-1973) at Chalet Covar, Les Avants, September 1972;
a portrait of Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), possibly taken at his home Villa Mauresque, Nice, circa 1930s;
an edited portrait of Elsa Maxwell as Count Korsetz in the spoof memoirs Quail in Aspic, 'outside' the Albert Memorial;
a portrait of Anita Loos (1888-1981);
three portraits of Isak Dinesen (1885-1962),
all silver gelatin prints, probably printed later, all with photographer's ink-stamp credit to reverse (8)
the largest: 25.25 x 20.25cm (9 7/8 x 8in)

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