The most intimate and least known Audrey Hepburn photographs are exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in London, which explores the career of screen legend who captivated the world with its elegant and sophisticated style.
Entitled “Audrey Hepburn, portraits of an icon” , the museum displays three small rooms a total of 35 shots yielded especially the two sons of the actress, Sean Hepburn Ferrer and Luca Dotti, and the foundation that bears his name.
The exhibition will be on view from July 2 to October 18, follows his life from his childhood years spent in the Netherlands, through its move to London to continue his studies in classical dance, his leap to Hollywood and its past years as a goodwill ambassador for Unicef.
Besides the photos, the gallery shows the dancers who took Hupburn adolescence when he began his ballet classes, which helped create the distinctive pose elegance with which he won millions of fans worldwide.
Among the highlights include a snapshot in black taken by some of the most renowned photographers of the time, including Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Angus McBean, Irvin Penn, Terry O’Neill and Norman Parkinson and white.
The oldest photograph is a black and white spotted when Hepburn was nine, in 1938, while the newest is a 1991, two years before his death in Switzerland because of colon cancer.
The curator of the exhibition, Helen Trompeteler said today that Audrey Hepburn is a figure who “still captivates the imagination of people and we wanted to focus on the pictures of his life and career, as well as explore the diversity of life due to its successes and its humanitarian work in the last years of his life. ”
The most intimate and almost family pictures correspond to his early years as a dancer and model in London, some of which were taken by Antony Beauchamp for advertising department store Marshall & amp; Snelgrove.
Some of these snapshots were never exhibited before, but many others are widely recognized as those taken during the filming of “Gigi” in 1951, or during filming in Italy of “War and Peace” (“War and Peace”) in 1955, captured by the photographer Philippe Halsman and George Daniell.
35 pictures, displayed chronologically, reflect the significant transformation of Audrey Hepburn from his early years in London to its international success in the mid-fifties, with films like “Roman Holiday” (“Roman Holidays”), and then in 1961, with “Breakfast at Tiffany” (“Breakfast at Tiffany’s), a film that turned into a real fashion icon and Hollywood.
In addition to dresses photos of his films, as one of Givenchy for “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and one white for the film “My Fair Lady” (1964), the museum has devoted an entire room wall hanging third covers magazine with his picture.
Nor missing photos of famous films as actor Peter O’Toole in “How to Steal a Million” (“How to Steal a Million”), 1966, and “Two for the Road” (“Two for the Road” ) of 1967, in which Audrey Hepburn worked with Albert Finney.
Audrey Hepburn’s son, Luca Dotti, who was today at the presentation of the exhibition, said the exhibition seeks to “get between racks” and show the life of his mother, “since its debut in London to stardom in years 50 and 60 “.
“I would be honored to have an exhibition dedicated to her at the National Portrait Gallery, and happy to be back home where it all started,” noted Dotti in English with a French accent.
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