Live Auction 14904Audrey Hepburn: The Personal Collection
BARONESS ELLA VAN HEEMSTRA
Lot 8

BARONESS ELLA VAN HEEMSTRA

Audrey Hepburn with Baroness Ella van Heemstra, New Jersey and Audrey Hepburn with Santa Claus, New York, both December 1953two gelatin silver press prints

Closed27 September 2017

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BARONESS ELLA VAN HEEMSTRA
Audrey Hepburn with Baroness Ella van Heemstra, New Jersey and Audrey Hepburn with Santa Claus, New York, both December 1953
two gelatin silver press prints
each with stamped United Press credit (verso)
together with a typescript letter, signed, from picture editor of the Newspaper Enterprise Association Jack P. Gabriel to Audrey Hepburn, dated 23 February, 1954 ...enclosing some glossies you may like to have, particularly the one with your mother
largest print, sheet: 8 x 7 ¼ in.(20.3 x 18.4 cm.); letter 9 ½ x 6 in. (24.1 x 15.2 cm.)
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Specialist note

Audrey's mother, the Baroness Ella Van Heemstra, arrived in the United States for the first time on 17th December, 1953, to stay with her daughter until the following May. Having not seen the Baroness since she left London in October 1951, Audrey greeted her mother aboard the liner Nieuw Amsterdam in Hoboken, New Jersey. In an interview with Photoplay magazine, Audrey enthused I want everything to be perfect, I've ordered tickets for all the new plays, and I'm going to lay it on real thick - New York that is. I want mother to love it as much as I do. I plan to spoil her as she's never been spoiled before!

Four days later, Audrey was photographed with Santa Claus during ceremonies at the Heart Thrift House in New York on 21st December, 1953, for the benefit of the New York Heart Association.