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Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980); The Sitwell Family; (4) image 1
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An Important Archive of Photographs by Cecil Beaton
Lot 172AR,Ω

Cecil Beaton
(British, 1904-1980)
The Sitwell Family 4

28 November – 16 December 2024, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,432 inc. premium

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Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980)

The Sitwell Family
To include a group portrait of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell, later printed after the 1929 original for Vanity Fair, silver gelatin print, with photographer's ink-stamp credit to reverse; and three portraits of Edith Sitwell, all with pencil annotations to reverse with edit and enhancement suggestions for the pictures, silver gelatin prints, some possibly printed later, with photographer's ink-stamp credit to reverse (4)
the largest: 29 x 24cm (11 7/16 x 9 7/16in)

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The Sitwells (Osbert, Edith and Sacheverell) were siblings at the centre of a literary and artistic group in London during the period of 1916-1930 and, for some time, they were considered to rival the Bloomsbury Group.

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