Queen Elizabeth II, The White Drawing Room, Buckingham Palace, London

Name: ANNIE LEIBOVITZ (B. 1949)
Brand: Queen Elizabeth II, The White Drawing Room, Buckingham Palace, London
Price: 22000.00 GBP
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ANNIE LEIBOVITZ (B. 1949)

Queen Elizabeth II, The White Drawing Room, Buckingham Palace, London

Price Realised GBP 27,720

Closed: 9 Mar 2022

Price Realised GBP 27,720

Closed: 9 Mar 2022

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ANNIE LEIBOVITZ (B. 1949)
Queen Elizabeth II, The White Drawing Room, Buckingham Palace, London
signed 'Annie Leibovitz' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
chromogenic dye coupler print
image: 37¹⁄₄ x 56⁷⁄₈in. (94.5 x 144.5cm.)
sheet: 38³⁄₄ x 58³⁄₈in. (98.3 x 148.2cm.)
Executed in 2007, this work is number three from an edition of ten

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007.

W. Shawcross, 'Portrait in Majesty', in Vanity Fair, June 2007, pp. 164-167 (illustrated in colour, pp. 164-165).
A. Leibovitz, Annie Leibovitz at Work, London 2008, p. 231 (illustrated in colour, p. 181).
S. DeLano (ed.), Annie Leibovitz. Portraits: 2005-2016, Paris 2017, pp. 36-37 (illustrated in colour).

London, Phillips de Pury & Company, Annie Leibovitz: The Master Set Part I, 2008, no. 18 (another version exhibited, illustrated in colour, pp. 33-34, 50).
London, National Portrait Gallery, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005, 2008-2009 (another version exhibited).
Singapore, ArtScience Museum, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005, 2014 (another version exhibited).

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Lot Essay

Annie Leibovitz’s (2007) forms part of a suite of photographs commissioned by the Royal Household to celebrate Her Majesty’s State Visit to the United States; their creation alsocoincided with the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. Leibovitz, who included the work in her two recent publications and was the first American to make an official portrait of the Queen. ‘I felt honoured’, she recalled. ‘I also felt that because I was an American, I had an advantage over every other photographer or painter who had made a portrait of her. It was O.K. for me to be reverent’ (A. Leibovitz, 2008, reprinted in ‘Annie Gets Her Shot’, , October 2008). Dressed in a resplendent gold gown, the Queen stands radiant in a chiaroscuro room. Light glimmers off the opulent candlesticks, gilt chairs, and the infinite chandelier reflections. Indeed, her portrait of the Queen is a study in majesty and grace.

With her team, Leibovitz spent three weeks scouting settings for the four portraits she would go on to make of Elizabeth. presents the Queen in the White Drawing Room, thought to be one of Buckingham Palace’s more private State Rooms. From the photoshoot, which lasted just thirty minutes, Leibovitz realized four intimate portraits of exceptional vulnerability. She captured the Queen as both a monarch and a woman. ‘Right after we finished,’ Lebovitz remembered, ‘I went up to the press secretary and said how much I loved the Queen. How feisty she was … What was remarkable about the shoot, and I wrote the Queen a note about this later ... [was] her resolve, her devotion to duty. She stayed until I said it was over. Until I said, “Thank you”’ (A. Leibovitz, ).