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PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS (1936-2008)
Lot 17

PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS (1936-2008)

Boy Breaking Piano in South Wales Village, 1961

Closed21 May 2010

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GBP 1,500

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PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS (1936-2008)
Boy Breaking Piano in South Wales Village, 1961
gelatin silver print
copyright limitation and photographer's credit stamp 'Copyright/Philip Jones Griffiths/Photographer' and inscribed 'Please accent the strings so they can be seen', further annotations in ink and pencil (verso)
12¾ x 8 in. (29.8 x 20.3 cm.)

Specialist note

Philip Jones Griffiths comments: 'This young boy epitomizes our Welsh ambivalent love for both rugby and music. This place, Pant-y-Wean, was once, in the 1930s, voted the most Beautiful Village in South Wales, but it has long since been obliterated by opencast mining. When I asked what he was doing, he replied, "My mother gave it to me to mend." '