A sketchbook of floral studies by Sir Cecil Beaton including: Primroses; Forget-me-nots, primroses and anemones (illustrated); Red double tulip; Yellow tulips; Rose off garden wall; Lilac from Wilton; Pink peony; Sweet william; Moss rose; and others; and a study of a sleeping cat; signed in the inside cover, variously inscribed and dated from 1949 to 1950 album; 12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.8 cm.)

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Sir Cecil Beaton, C.B.E. (1904-1980)
A sketchbook of floral studies by Sir Cecil Beaton including: Primroses; Forget-me-nots, primroses and anemones (illustrated); Red double tulip; Yellow tulips; Rose off garden wall; Lilac from Wilton; Pink peony; Sweet william; Moss rose; and others; and a study of a sleeping cat; signed in the inside cover, variously inscribed and dated from 1949 to 1950
album; 12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.8 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Cecil Beaton moved to Reddish House in 1948. These sketches were done at a time when he was pining for Greta Garbo, after their love affair in America, and while he was trying to persuade her to come and visit him at Reddish. They reflect his joy in his new and final home.

Christie's are most grateful to Hugo Vickers, Cecil Beaton's Literary Executor and author of Cecil Beaton - The Authorised Biography and editor of The Unexpurgated Beaton and Beaton in the Sixties, for his help in cataloguing the above twenty-eight lots.

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