Kuwait | 3 albums of photographs, 9 transparencies, and watercolour, 1950s-1980s

Lot 232
21.09.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 3 000
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Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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Lot 232 | Kuwait | 3 albums of photographs, 9 transparencies, and watercolour, 1950s-1980s
Valeur estimée
£ 3 000 – 4 000
A collection of photographs, transparencies, and a watercolour, comprising:

i. Albums of photographs, 1950s-1980s. 3 modern ringbinder albums (between 235 x 210mm. and 320 x 275mm.), containing 104 photographs in a range of sizes, subjects including Sheikh Abdullah Mubarak, Sheikh Saad Alabdallah Al Sabah with foreign officials, and the Kuwait oil industry, plus ephemera (Newspaper clipping from "Sunday News", 7 January 1962, with the headline "Daddy Warbucks of the Desert [...] Kuwait's Ruler Draws $9 Million a Week..."; issue of "Lebanon Fortnightly" magazine, 16-28 February 1967; postcard dated 23/02/1958);

ii. 9 colour transparencies depicting the oil industry in Kuwait, August 1971. Each 23 x 34mm., captioned in ballpoint pen on mounts;

iii. Watercolour of Sheikh Abdulla Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 1953. Window mounted on card and framed, 280 x 190mm. unframed, 420 x 320mm. framed, signed and dated in lower margin "H. Javdani | Studio Demon | 1953. Tehran", slightly browned at extremities
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