Lot Essay
Halsman captured Hepburn at home in a series of photographs to accompany an article for Life magazine, 18 July, 1955 titled An Idyl for Audrey: In Italy She relaxes down on a plush farm. While filming War and Peace at Rome's Cinecitta studios, Audrey and husband Mel Ferrer rented a pink farmhouse outside Rome with a menagerie of animals.