Portraits of an icon

AUDREY HEPBURN’S SONS LEND 35 PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF THEIR MOTHER TO MAJOR NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY EXHIBITION

Thirty-five important photographs of Audrey Hepburn from the personal collection of her sons, Sean Hepburn Ferrer and Luca Dotti, will go on rare UK display in the National Portrait Gallery’s summer exhibition Audrey Hepburn:
Portraits of an Icon. This major photography exhibition, which will explore the life and
career of the celebrated film star, is the first British exhibition to be organised with support from the Audrey
Hepburn Estate.

She would be honoured to have an exhibition dedicated to her at the National Portrait Gallery. And glad to be back home

 

Luca Dotti | Son of Audrey Hepburn

Highlights from the exhibition will include examples of her early work in London as a fashion model for photographs by Antony Beauchamp for the department store Marshall & Snelgrove, and the highly successful Crookes Lacto-Calamine skin-cream campaign, photographed by Angus McBean in 1950. Photographs by Larry Fried, showing Hepburn in her dressing room on Broadway for Gigi (1951); Hepburn captured in Italy at the time of filming War and Peace (1955) by Philippe Halsman and George Daniell; publicity photographs for Funny Face (1957); and Terry O’Neill’s photographs taken during the making of films How to Steal a Million (1966) and Two for the Road (1967), will be among the portraits on show, documenting Hepburn’s transformation throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and her key roles on stage and screen. Also included in the exhibition will be vintage magazine covers, from the Picturegoer in 1952 to the front cover of Life magazine featuring Hepburn in Givenchy for her role in Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1961, taken by Howell Conant. Original film stills and ephemera will complete the story of one of the world’s most photographed women.