Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Playwright
Samuel Barclay Beckett
Sitter in 38 portraits
Born in Dublin Beckett studied modern European Literature at Trinity College, Dublin (1923-1927). From 1932 he lived mainly in France becoming closely associated with James Joyce. His plays and novels, mostly written first in French, deliver a reductive view of human existence, and have been internationally influential. They include the novel trilogy Molloy (1951), Malone Dies (1951) and The Unnamable (1953) and plays Waiting for Godot (written in 1948/9 and first staged in London in 1955), Endgame (1957), Krapp's Last Tape(1959), Happy Days (1961) and Not I(1973). Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.
by Dmitri Kasterine
modern bromide print from an original negative, 2009 (1965)
NPG P1323
by Avigdor Arikha
graphite on primed brown paper, 1971
NPG 5100
by Peter Keen
bromide print, early 1960s
NPG x88866
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by Jerry Bauer
magazine cover, 1962
NPG x136874
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by Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
gelatin silver print, 1957
NPG P1689
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