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Baba Beaton

by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print, May 1927
10 3/8 in. x 6 3/4 in. (264 mm x 171 mm)
Accepted in lieu of tax by H.M. Government and allocated to the Gallery, 1991
Photographs Collection
NPG x40013

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  • Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), Photographer, designer and writer. Artist or producer associated with 1114 portraits, Sitter associated with 360 portraits.

Linked publicationsback to top

  • Pepper, Terence, Beaton Portraits, 2004 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 5 February - 31 May 2004), p. 21
  • Pepper, Terence, Beaton Portraits, 2004 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 5 February to 31 May 2004), p. 21
  • Robin Muir, Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things, 2020 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 12 March to 7 June 2020), p. 190

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Events of 1927back to top

Current affairs

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, acknowledging the full independence of the Irish Free State, led at the time by W.T. Cosgrave, the the first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.

Art and science

The BBC gains its Royal Charter making it a public corporation and a public service broadcaster accountable to its audience. John Reith became the first Director General with the directive to 'inform, educate and entertain.'

International

Stalin expels Leon Trotsky from the Soviet Communist Party, giving himself greater control of the party and country by ousting opposition elements.

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robin Muir

02 November 2017, 19:25

This is Baba in her incomplete costume as 'Heloise' for the 'Lover's Pageant' (aka 'Pageant of Great Lovers' or 'Great London Pageant of Lovers') held at the New Theatre, London. The photograph was taken beforehand at the Beaton family home . Cecil designed the outfit. The date is May 1927 (not 1925 or more often 1926). It is titled in one of Beaton's contemporaneous albums (now in private US hands). Prince Nicholas Galitzine went as Abelard, Beaton himself as Lucien Bonaparte