LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Silver print, mounted to card

Size Notes:

sheet

Description:

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Markings:

Signed and dated 1951 in black ink in the lower margin of the card, and annotated Copyright Angus McBean The first published picture of Audrey Hepburn - picked out of a chorus line for a beauty product 'ad' in 1951 in blue ink on the reverse of the mount

Condition:

unframed

Literature:

A Darker Side of the Moon, exhibition catalogue, Impressions Gallery, York, 1977; Adrian Woodhouse, Angus McBean, Quartet Books, London, 1982;. Adrian Woodhouse, Angus McBean: Facemaker, Alma Books Ltd, Richmond, Surrey, 2006. Time, 7th September 1953 illustrated p.36;. Angus McBean Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2006. cat. no.53;. Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2015, cat. no.13.

Provenance:

From the collection of the Artist's biographer, Adrian Woodhouse