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Julian Patrick Barnes and his wife Pat Kavanagh

4 of 4 portraits of Patricia Olive ('Pat') Kavanagh

Julian Patrick Barnes and his wife Pat Kavanagh, by Jillian Edelstein, 1991 - NPG x45381 - © Jillian Edelstein / Camera Press

© Jillian Edelstein / Camera Press

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Julian Patrick Barnes and his wife Pat Kavanagh

by Jillian Edelstein
bromide print, 1991
13 in. x 10 3/8 in. (329 mm x 264 mm)
Purchased, 1994
Photographs Collection
NPG x45381

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  • Jillian Edelstein (1957-), Photographer. Artist of 119 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.

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Current affairs

Publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell dies after falling from his yacht in the Canary Islands. Although the verdict was 'accidental death', suspicions of suicide or murder were raised because of his alleged connections to Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, and the revelation that he had used hundreds of millions of pounds from his companies' pension funds to finance his corporate debt and lavish lifestyle.

Art and science

Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the rock group Queen, dies of Aids.
Marc Quinn brings a new meaning to the term 'Self-Portrait' with his work Self, a cast of the artists' head made out of his own blood.

International

Members of the USSR sign the Alma-Ata Protocol, disbanding the Union in favour of a Commonwealth of Independent States, thereby granting independence to the various republics.
The Revolutionary United Front begins a civil war against the government of Sierra Leone in West Africa. Tens of thousands die in eleven years of violence.
Civil War breaks out in the former Yugoslavia as Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence.

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