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Album containing 37 Photographs gifted to Lady Diana Cooper on the occasion of her 80th Birthday, August, 1972
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Sir Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980)
Album containing 37 Photographs gifted to Lady Diana Cooper on the occasion of her 80th Birthday, August, 1972
37 gelatin silver prints, mounted on pages of leather-bound album
engraved 'For Diana on her birthday August 29th 1972 with love from Cecil' (cover), signed and dedicated ‘For Diana with admiration affection & much love Cecil 1972’ in ink (front page)
album: 12¾ x 10½ x 1½ in. (32.3 x 26.7 x 3.8 cm.)
image/sheet sizes ranging from : 7½ x 7½ in. (19 x 19 cm.) to 9¾ x 7 in. (24.6 x 17.7 cm.)
Album containing 37 Photographs gifted to Lady Diana Cooper on the occasion of her 80th Birthday, August, 1972
37 gelatin silver prints, mounted on pages of leather-bound album
engraved 'For Diana on her birthday August 29th 1972 with love from Cecil' (cover), signed and dedicated ‘For Diana with admiration affection & much love Cecil 1972’ in ink (front page)
album: 12¾ x 10½ x 1½ in. (32.3 x 26.7 x 3.8 cm.)
image/sheet sizes ranging from : 7½ x 7½ in. (19 x 19 cm.) to 9¾ x 7 in. (24.6 x 17.7 cm.)
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Further details
The Lady Diana Cooper album was given to Hugo Vickers by Lady Diana and has never been seen in public before. Cecil gave it to her at the Hofmannsthal house in Austria on her 80th birthday in August 1972. From his diary (The Unexpurgated Beaton, p. 265):
Diana looking through the album of photographs of herself I had given her, kept saying: ‘It’s the pains you have taken that’s so touching.’ I had wanted to give her a good present and this was the right occasion.
The only other such albums he made were for his sisters’ wedding and are still in private hands.
Diana looking through the album of photographs of herself I had given her, kept saying: ‘It’s the pains you have taken that’s so touching.’ I had wanted to give her a good present and this was the right occasion.
The only other such albums he made were for his sisters’ wedding and are still in private hands.