Aug 17, 2023 - Sale 2644

Sale 2644 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

CECIL BEATON (1904-1980)


Mrs. Harrison Williams, later Mona Countess of Bismark.
Silver contact print, the image measuring 244x197 mm; 9 5/8x7 3/4 inches, the sheet slightly larger, with Beaton's numeric notation in the negative, and his credit stamp, a copyright stamp with the sitting date (Dec 3), and the Beaton Studio / Sotheby Parke Bernet stamp with the edition notation 1/3 in ink, on verso. Circa 1935.

Additional Details

Provenance: Cecil Beaton Estate Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, November 9. 1978, lot 504

Literature: The Best of Beaton, London, 1969, p. 61