Cecil Beaton

HOUSTON, TX.- Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits from Holbein to Warhol sheds new light on changing ideas of monarchy and nationhood in Britain. The exhibition features portraits of British royalty spanning 500 years, by artists from Hans Holbein and Sir Joshua Reynolds to Annie Leibovitz and Andy Warhol. In a sweeping survey, Tudors to Windsors covers the cavalcade of kings, queens, princes, and princesses who have graced the British crown. The MFAH is the only U.S. venue to host this unprecedented... [Lire la suite]

Henri Matisse, Portrait of Mary Hutchinson, 1936, charcoal and estompe on paper, 66.4 by 50cm. Est. £2,000,000-3,000,000. Courtesy Sotheby's. LONDON.- Created in the Paris studio of Henri Matisse in June 1936, this ravishing portrait depicts the writer Mary Hutchinson, a key member of the Bloomsbury group. A fascinating, fashionable and multifaceted woman, to whom the artist Henry Tonks once said, “what an unusual power you have, you are no ordinary person”, Mary was an active patron of the arts throughout her life – her... [Lire la suite]

Betsy Bloomingdale. Photography Credit: Photographer unknown, courtesy of the Estate of Betsy Bloomingdale “To me style, in anything you do, whether dressing, entertaining, collecting, whatever, is a sureness of choice. It can be learned, it can be developed, but to be successful, it mustn’t be perceived.” –Betsy Bloomingdale NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announces the release of the sale catalogue for the auction of Betsy Bloomingdale: A Life in Style, featuring the contents of Mrs. Bloomingdale’s Hollywood... [Lire la suite]

William Klein, Club Allegro fortissimo, Paris, 1990. Photo © William Klein. Courtesy Galerie Azzedine Alaïa. PARIS - Près de deux cents photographies sont réunies dans l’exposition « Entre l’art et la mode: la collection Carla Sozzani », à la galerie parisienne Azzedine Alaïa. Le regard de Carla Sozzani, figure majeure au croisement de la mode, de la photographie et de l’art L’exposition présente une sélection de photographies issues de la collection qu’a constituée depuis presque quarante ans Carla Sozzani, une... [Lire la suite]

Lot 165. A diamond cluster necklace, by Harry Winston and a photograph by Cecil Beaton. Estimate $400,000 - USD 600,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2016. Designed as a graduated pear, circular and marquise-cut diamond cluster necklace, the largest twelve pear-shaped diamonds weighing from approximately 4.10 to 2.17 carats, 16 ins., mounted in platinum; with hidden pendant hoop for suspension, front may be separated and worn as a bracelet of 7 ins., in a Harry Winston black case, accompanied by a signed... [Lire la suite]

Lot 163. A pair of diamond cluster ear pendants, by Harry Winston and a photograph, by Cecil Beaton. Estimate $300,000-400,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2016. Each suspending a cluster of marquise and pear-shaped diamonds, to the circular and pear-shaped diamond surmount, two of the marquise brilliant-cut diamonds weighing approximately 4.06 and 3.64 carats, and two of the pear brilliant-cut diamonds weighing approximately 2.87 and 2.36 carats, 1 √ ins., mounted in platinum; and a signed gelatin... [Lire la suite]

Balenciaga. Evening dress of ivory silk gazar and black lace, 1962. Photo by Cecil Beaton.

Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire feeding her chickens at Chatsworth, 1995, wearing a Balmain ball gown and pearls. ©Bruce Weber LONDON.- Property from the personal collection of the inimitable Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire (1920-2014), will be offered at Sotheby’s London on 2nd March 2016. The youngest of the Mitford Sisters, and for half a century the chatelaine of Chatsworth, one of England’s greatest stately homes, the Duchess was at the very heart of British rural, cultural and political life. Her friends... [Lire la suite]

Charles James' ex-wife Nancy wearing his 'Swan' gown, 1955. Picture: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum Of Art. Photograph by Cecil Beaton, The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's

Audrey Hepburn, 1954. Photo Cecil Beaton Richard Avedon, Evelyn Avedon Reddish, 1955. Photo Cecil Beaton Truman Capote, Bangkok, Thailand, 1957. Photo Cecil Beaton Julie Andrews in 1959. Photo Cecil Beaton