W.H. Auden

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• Wystan Hugh ('W.H.') Auden (1907-1973), Poet. Sitter associated with 41 portraits.

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• Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002), Photographer. Artist of 153 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

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Photographed in the garden of Stephen Spender's house. Early in 1972, Auden was offered an honorary studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, with a cottage in the college grounds. However he was unwell and unhappy there. Auden died of heart failure on returning to Oxford after a summer in Austria. His last poems were published posthumously as Thank you, Fog (1974).

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• Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 23

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• Photographs by Yousuf Karsh, 1937-87