Aug 17, 2023 - Sale 2644

Sale 2644 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

CECIL BEATON (1904-1980)


Post-War Paris Fashion.
Silver print, the image measuring 225x165 mm; 8 7/8x6 1/2 inches, the sheet slightly larger, with Beaton's signature in ink, the title and date in ink and pencil, his "Cecil Beaton Photograph" credit stamp, and the Beaton Studio / Sotheby Parke Bernet stamp with the edition notation 1/5 in ink, on verso. 1946.

Additional Details

Provenance: Cecil Beaton Estate Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, November 9. 1978, lot 416

Literature: The Best of Beaton, London, p.138. Beaton wrote, p. 133:"Difficult a sit may be to understand today, the photograph of the little lady wearing trousers in the Corot-like backyard caused quite a furor when she appeared in Vogue. She has since been followed into this humble setting by many thousands."