Lot 185
  • 185

David Bailey

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • David Bailey
  • Box of Pin-Ups, 1965
  • Half tone prints
Thirty six half-tone prints, contained in the original cardboard box, printed by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London. With biographical details of each sitter printed on the reverse of each print

Provenance

Private Collection, U.K.

Literature

Martin Harrison, David Bailey: Archive One, 1957-1969, London, Thames & Hudson, 1999, illustrated pp.157, 169, 175, 177, 179, 181;
David Bailey, Bailey's Stardust, London, National Portrait Gallery, 2014, illustrated pp.191-197.

Condition

In the box of thirty six prints, twenty nine are in overall good condition, with random handling marks and slightly rubbed corners. With significant creases to three prints, and two prints bearing significant scratch marks. One print bearing creases, coffee stains and a 1/2 cm tear, and one print with uniform discolouration, a crease, handling marks and residue of blu-tack when it was once affixed to the wall.
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