Thanks, peteb, for writing about Bonham’s auction on Slugger.
Going up for auction on Oct. 3 – a huge collection of images of writers and artists. Sketches, portraits, photographs … So many amazing things in there. Baudelaire, Beckett … tons and tons more.
Here’s my favorite though – Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and Charles Causley sitting round the table. You can see they’ve all signed the bottom of the photo.
Auction notes read:
HUGHES, TED, (1930-1998, poet, Poet Laureate, O.M.) AND CAUSLEY, CHARLES (1917-2003, poet) AND HEANEY, SEAMUS (b. 1939, poet, Nobel Prize winner for Literature)
PORTRAITS BY CAROL ORCHARD HUGHES, photograph, showing the three of them seated round a table in the Hughes’ house, reading submissions for the Arvon Poetry Competition in 1982 which are piled on the table, signed by each in the lower margin for the collector (‘For Roy from Ted’, ‘And Roy from Charles’, and ‘Also for Roy from Seamus’), dated on verso by Carol Hughes 26 July 1980, 8½ x 10½ in (21.6 x 26.7 cm).
Wow.
That’s one of my favourites from the collection too. The signatures are wonderful.. whether accurately or not, I picture them passing the photograph round that table, one to the other, carrying the theme – For Roy from, And Roy from, Also for Roy from.
Btw, also up for auction, as part of the collection, is the pen and ink drawing of Ted Hughes by Sylvia.
It’s an amazing collection.. all the way to Verdi, Wagner and Zola.
Any Joyce? I didn’t see any but I didn’t look all the way through
The only image I could find of Joyce is this bronze medallion from 1922
But there’s always the WB Yeats photograph by Lafayette
btw.. one of the major local [NI] papers ran a page 3 story [full page] on the Bonahm’s auction today.. with the triumvirate image and the Heaney oil-painting.