Live Auction 10672Mrs Thatcher - Property from the Collection of The Right Honourable The Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, LG, OM, FRS
Norman Parkinson (1913-1990)
Lot 34

Norman Parkinson (1913-1990)

Margaret Thatcher, 1981

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Norman Parkinson (1913-1990)
Margaret Thatcher, 1981
gelatin silver print, mounted on board
signed in ink (mount, recto)
image/sheet: 5 x 4 in. (12.7 x 10.2 cm.)
mount: 7 7/8 x 6 in. (20 x 15.3 cm.)

Specialist note

This portrait is one of a series taken of Mrs. Thatcher in the white drawing room at number 10 Downing Street on 15 June 1981. She is depicted wearing a grey wool business suit by François Neckar (see preceding lot). Mrs. Thatcher’s appointments diary records the sitting at 16:45 followed at 17:30 by a meeting with the Yugoslavian Foreign Secretary and Ambassador.