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East Birmingham,
Vanity Fair Portrait, 1902
Framed Chromolithograph by Spy (Leslie Ward) depicting Sir John Benjamin Stone, Conservative politician, pioneer of photography, MP for Birmingham East and first Mayor of Sutton Coldfield. He was a prolific early documentary photographer and undertook photographic expeditions to Spain, Norway, Japan and Brazil where he captured the 1893 total solar eclipse. The National Portrait Gallery holds 62 of his photographic portraits and he was appointed the official photographer of the coronation of George V in 1911.
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Cahiers D’Art 1953
£220Cahiers D’Art 1953
Cahiers D’Art was a journal, founded by the art critic Christian Zervos, in Paris at 14, rue du Dragon. It was published from 1926 to 1960, with a wartime interruption 1941 to 1943. Zervos was a Greek-French art historian, critic, collector, writer and publisher. The journal was noted for the quality of its articles and illustrations which unusually promoted Modern Art from all over the world rather than just Europe.£220