Beach Portraits
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Beach Portraits

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Beach Portraits
Approximately thirty portraits of Margot Fonteyn, by various photographers, the majority taken on the beach in St. Maxime, France, in 1938, by David Lane or Felix Fonteyn, including a number of duplicate images, majority 8x10in. (25.4x20.3cm.) (some printed later) (a lot)
Literature
FONTEYN, Margot Autobiography, London: W.H.Allen, 1975, p.64 (illus.)
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Lot Essay

Fonteyn admitted to having a particular love for and affinity with the sea and felt that her signature role of the water-sprite in Ondine was highly appropriate.

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