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Chris Beetles, Limited, London
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Cecil Beaton
British • 1904 - 1980
Cecil Beaton was a highly celebrated British photographer who is perhaps best known for taking portraits of the colorful celebrities who composed the fashionable society of early-mid twentieth century London, all of whom were within his social circle. According to an autobiographical account, Cecil Beaton's relationship with photography began as a boy when he fell in love with picture postcards of the Edwardian theater actress Miss Lily Elsie. He took up photography at a young age, using his sisters Nancy and Baba as his primary subjects. Initially, Beaton sought to emulate pictures he saw in fashion magazines, especially the soft-focus technique used by Baron Adolphe de Meyer.

In 1929 he moved to New York after signing a contract with American Vogue. Throughout the 1930s Beaton traveled extensively as a portrait photographer, spending time in Hollywood amongst the glitter and glamour of Hollywood film stars. When the Second World War began and focus turned towards its dangers and devastations, Queen Elizabeth II commissioned Beaton to document the ravages of the German blitz. Following the War, in addition to taking photographs, in the late 1950s into the 1960s Beaton was involved in film as a stage and costume designer. During this time, he designed the costume and set for the stage version of My Fair Lady (New York, 1956; London, 1958) and the film Gigi (1958).
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Cecil Beaton

Audrey Hepburn

January, 1960
Gelatin silver print, printed 2009.
18 1/2 x 18 1/4 in. (47 x 46.4 cm)
Signature credit and Studio Archive copyright reproduction limitation stamps, titled, dated and numbered 1/50 in an unidentified hand in pencil on the verso.

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Works from the Collection of Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington D.C.
New York Exhibition 17 – 29 August 2017

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Mrs. Charles James, New York
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Cecil Beaton
Leslie Caron on the set of 'Gigi'
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Marlene Dietrich
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Audrey Hepburn
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Cecil Beaton
Audrey Hepburn
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Brian Duffy
Jean Shrimpton
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Cecil Beaton
Marilyn Monroe, Ambassador Hotel, New York
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Brigitte Bardot
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Catherine Deneuve on the set of 'Mayerling'
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Joanna Lumley, Fashion Shoot for Selfridges
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Julie Christie I
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Julie Christie II
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Jacqueline Bisset, Wilton Place, London
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Terence Stamp on the set of John Schlesinger's 'Far From The Madding Crowd'
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Susannah York on the set of 'Duffy', Spain
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Jean Shrimpton and Terence Stamp, London
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Orson Welles during the filming of 'Casino Royale'
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Patrick Lichfield
Charlie Chaplin and Marlon Brando at the Premiere Party for 'A Countess From Hong Kong', Savoy Hotel, London
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Paul McCartney at Ringo Starr's Wedding, London
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Sir Ralph Richardson, Lord Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness
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Sir Ralph Richardson
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Colette, Paris
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HRH Princess Elizabeth, taken on the occasion of her becoming Commander-In-Chief of the Grenadier Guards
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Herbert Ponting
Grotto in a Berg, Terra Nova in the distance, 5 January
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Tom Stoppard, Rotherhithe, London
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Edwin Smith
Roofscape, Whitby, North Yorkshire
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Noël Coward, Trafalgar Square, London
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Rudolf Nureyev, Royal Ballet, London
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Jeremy Irons
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Michelle Pfeiffer, Portugal
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Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, John Carradine and Peter Cushing in Costume for 'The House of Long Shadows', Hampshire, England
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Isabella Rossellini, Publicity Still for 'White Nights', London
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Works from the Collection of Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington D.C.
New York Exhibition 17 – 29 August 2017