Aug 13, 2020 - Sale 2544

Sale 2544 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

CECIL BEATON (1904-1980) & HERBERT LIST (1903-1975)


A trio of photographs of Andrea Tagliabue.
Silver prints, the images measuring 279.4x228.6 mm.; 11x9 inches and 241.3 mm.; 9 1/2 inches square, the Beatons with his signature, in ink, on recto and his hand stamp on verso; the List with his signature, title, date, and various notations, in ink, on verso. Circa 1960s.

Andrea Tagliabue met the bohemian artist and author Charles Henry Ford in the 1960s while Tagliabue was working as a film actor in Italy. The two quickly formed a bond and lived together in Paris and eventually New York. Through Ford, Tagliabue was introduced to the wider LGBQT+ community that existed in Lower Manhattan during the 60s and 70s.