Samuel Beckett
(1906-1989), PlaywrightSamuel Barclay Beckett
Sitter in 42 portraits
Born in Dublin Beckett studied modern European Literature at Trinity College, Dublin (1923-1927). From 1932 he lived mainly in Paris 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 the plays Waiting for Godot (premiered in Paris in 1953 and first staged in London in 1955), Endgame (1957), Krapp's Last Tape(1959), Happy Days (1961) and Not I(1973). Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.
by Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
gelatin silver print, 1957
NPG P1689
by Dmitri Kasterine
modern bromide print from original negative, 2009, based on a work of 1965
NPG P1323
by Avigdor Arikha
graphite on primed brown paper, 1971
NPG 5100
by Peter Keen
bromide print, early 1960s
NPG x88866
by Michael Peto
modern bromide print from original negative, May 1961
NPG x137676
'Encore Magazine' (Samuel Beckett)
by Jerry Bauer
magazine cover, 1962
NPG x136874
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, October 1966
NPG x194046
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, 1966
NPG x198373
by John Minihan
cibachrome print, 1980
NPG x29010
by John Minihan
resin print, 1980
NPG x28989
by John Minihan
resin print, 1980
NPG x32122
by John Minihan
resin print, 1980
NPG x28990
by John Minihan
resin print, 1982
NPG x29012
by John Minihan
cibachrome print, 1984
NPG x33599
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