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Produced for Vogue's 1937 Coronation edition to commemorate the coronation of George VI. Beaton would later go on to be the official photographer for the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II, apparently at the insistence of the Queen Mother and over the Duke of Edinburgh's preferred photographer 'Baron' Nahum.
Provenance
The Artist's Estate, where acquired by
Michael Parkin Fine Art Ltd., London, where acquired by Roy Astley before 1986
Exhibited
The Barbican Art Gallery, London, Cecil Beaton, 16 May - 20 July 1986, no.G22
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Cecil Beaton, 9 November 1988 - 29 January 1989, no.G22
Literature
D. Mellor, Cecil Beaton, exhibition catalogue, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1986, p.181