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Peter watson cecil beaton pictures. Blue plaque unveiled at cecil beaton s former home number 8 pelham place in london was the photographer s residence and studio for 35 years. He also photographed shah mohammed raza pahlevi with fauzia faud chirine and their child during world war ii. Loretta young new york 1938 photograph. British culture owes a huge debt to peter watson.

The mad boy peter watson cecil beaton and the limo by sofka zinovieff peter watson the 1930s playboy who wafts in and out of other biographies at last takes centre stage. But as a louche sex life hinted he. See more ideas about cecil beaton peter lucian freud paintings. He was the product of true theatrical romance.

Cecil beaton s queer saint bankrolled all the famous names from spender to freud and co founded the ica. Peter watson right with oliver messel. Henceforth cecil would be bisexual though of the three great loves of his life two would be men arts patron peter watson and american art historian kin hoitsma and only one would be a woman. Cecil walter hardy beaton was born in 1904 into a prosperous edwardian middle class family in hampstead a leafy suburb of london.

Beaton took the famous wedding pictures of the duke and duchess of windsor wearing an haute couture ensemble by the noted american fashion designer mainbocher. Feb 5 2017 explore glen moore s board peter watson on pinterest. At this time he took pictures of prime minister winston churchill. His mother esther was a cumbrian blacksmith s daughter who was visiting london when she fell in love with his father ernest a timber merchant after seeing him onstage in the lead role in an amateur dramatic production.

A blue plaque has been. He funded the literary magazine horizon edited by cyril connolly. Victor william peter watson 14 september 1908 3 may 1956 was a wealthy english art collector and benefactor. Sotheby s cecil beaton archive wed 10 may 2017 02 00 edt last modified on tue 31 mar 2020 09 36 edt.

This episode was highly humiliating for cecil beaton and so he went back to england where he was given work at the ministry of information on the recommendation of the queen. Queen fawzia fuad chirine with shah mohammed reza pahlevi and their daughter princess shahnaz pahlavi in tehran during the second world war.

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