CECIL BEATON (1904-1980) & GEORGE HOYNINGEN-HUENE (1900-1968) A Scrapbook, compiled by Beaton and including an extensive series of studies by Hoyningen-Huene, 1930s the majority of the images comprising postcards and gelatin silver prints recording Beaton’s interests in art, architecture and the interior, the record of his 1938 travels when ‘I was initiated into the Rococo marvels of Austria and Bavaria’ ( The Wandering Years , p. 333), and approximately 47 gelatin silver prints by Hoyningen-Huene from a trip made with Beaton in 1931, the majority of these titled and dated in ink with stamped photographer’s credit (verso), mounted or loose within pages of leather bound album with gold leaf to front cover album: 17 x 12 ½ x 2 in. (43.1 x 31.6 x 5 cm.) image/sheet various sizes up to: 11 ¾ x 10 ¼ in. (30 x 26 cm.) Provenance The Artist. Thence by descent to the present owner.
CECIL BEATON (1904-1980) & GEORGE HOYNINGEN-HUENE (1900-1968) A Scrapbook, compiled by Beaton and including an extensive series of studies by Hoyningen-Huene, 1930s the majority of the images comprising postcards and gelatin silver prints recording Beaton’s interests in art, architecture and the interior, the record of his 1938 travels when ‘I was initiated into the Rococo marvels of Austria and Bavaria’ ( The Wandering Years , p. 333), and approximately 47 gelatin silver prints by Hoyningen-Huene from a trip made with Beaton in 1931, the majority of these titled and dated in ink with stamped photographer’s credit (verso), mounted or loose within pages of leather bound album with gold leaf to front cover album: 17 x 12 ½ x 2 in. (43.1 x 31.6 x 5 cm.) image/sheet various sizes up to: 11 ¾ x 10 ¼ in. (30 x 26 cm.) Provenance The Artist. Thence by descent to the present owner.
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