Terry O'Neill (1938 - 2019)
Lot 52: TERRY O'NEILL
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Description
Raquel Welch, Los Angeles
Signed and numbered 1/50 in ink in the margin.
Dimensions
91.5 x 91.5 cm (36 x 36 in).
Artist or Maker
TERRY O'NEILL b. 1938
Medium
Lambda print, printed later and flush-mounted.
Date
1970
Literature
Sunday Times Magazine, 27 September 1998, cover
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist
Notes
“Raquel was a friend and I was shooting her for Esquire Magazine in the US in 1970. At the time she was being crucified by feminists for the sexist roles that had come her way in movies like One Million Years BC and it gave me the idea for this cover shoot. But it proved too controversial and it lay unpublished in my archive for nearly 30 years until The Sunday Times Magazine ran a retrospective of my work in 1998 and put it on the cover. It’s still controversial to this day - my galleries have had problems showing it, not just complaints but threats too.”
Terry O’Neill