Cecil Beaton’s portraits from 1920s and 1930s Britain will go on show at a major new exhibition. Cecil Beaton’s portraits from 1920s and 1930s Britain will go on show at a major new exhibition. Cecil Beaton by Paul Tanqueray, 1937 (National Portrait Gallery, London, Estate of Paul Tanqueray)The new exhibition will feature around 150 of Beaton’s works. Anna May Wong by Cecil Beaton, 1929 (The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s)Beaton, also a war photographer and diarist, suffered from a debilitating stroke in 1974 and died in 1980, at the age of 76. Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things will run at the National Portrait Gallery, London from March 12 to June 7, 2020.

Source: Irish Independent May 20, 2019 09:11 UTC