Mandy Rice-Davies

Details

Stephen Ward (1912-1963)
Mandy Rice-Davies
signed 'Stephen Ward' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour
3 ¾ x 5 ¾ in. (9.5 x 14.5 cm.)

Provenance

Purchased from the chauffeur of Peter Rachman.
with The Museum Gallery, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 17 May 2006, lot 357, where purchased by the present owner.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Mandy Rice-Davies met Christine Keeler when she moved to London and later moved into Stephen Ward's Wimpole Mews flat with Keeler. The two became lovers and Ward at one time even proposed to her. Mandy Rice-Davies was alleged to have had a relationship with the then Viscount Astor whose pool party in July 1961 at Cliveden, Buckinghamshire became notorious for the meeting of Christine Keeler and John Profumo, the British Secretary of State for War.

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