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Yevonde – Life and Colour – National Portrait Gallery

Posted: October 16th, 2023 | No Comments »

Sorry, I’m too late to recommend this great exhibition of the work of the London and Manchester photographer Yevonde: Life and Colour. I honestly knew nothing about Yevonde prior to the exhibition and her work was a revelation. But It finished this weekend – sorry – and I just managed to make it on the last day. Still, here’s one picture that may interest China Rhyming readers – of former Bright Young Thing Daphne Fielding, Viscountess Weymouth, posed in a “Chinese setting” by Yevonde in 1935…



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