27th Apr, 2021 10:00

Modern Art & Design, The Laskett

 
Lot 449
 

449

Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930-2017)/Sir Roy Strong/signed photograph, 29.5cm x 24.5cm/Note: A quote from Sir Roy Strong reads 'I was to be photographed by Tony Snowdon for the April issue of the Italian men's fashion magazine Uomo as one of a gallery of gardeners. My Versace black leather blouson and corduroy trousers survived the redressing; otherwise I was put into a Ralph Lauren black suede shirt and poured into a black leather riding boots....Tony tucked a pair of secateurs into the top of one boot, telling me that this was where Vita Sackville-West had put hers, 'Give me more cleavage' Tony yelled, at which point Patrick (Kinmouth his assistant) yelled back 'You can't do that to Roy!', the result was a cross between Heathcliffe and a rent boy in old age but, as Tony said, 'there's the cover for your next book'

Sold for £280


 
Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930-2017)/Sir Roy Strong/signed photograph, 29.5cm x 24.5cm/Note: A quote from Sir Roy Strong reads 'I was to be photographed by Tony Snowdon for the April issue of the Italian men's fashion magazine Uomo as one of a gallery of gardeners. My Versace black leather blouson and corduroy trousers survived the redressing; otherwise I was put into a Ralph Lauren black suede shirt and poured into a black leather riding boots....Tony tucked a pair of secateurs into the top of one boot, telling me that this was where Vita Sackville-West had put hers, 'Give me more cleavage' Tony yelled, at which point Patrick (Kinmouth his assistant) yelled back 'You can't do that to Roy!', the result was a cross between Heathcliffe and a rent boy in old age but, as Tony said, 'there's the cover for your next book'
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