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Yevonde: Life and Colour, National Portrait Gallery

June 22, 2023 - October 15, 2023

Yevonde: Life and Colour

The first exhibition to debut as a part of the Gallery’s 2023 programme will examine the life and career of Yevonde, colour photography pioneer in the 1930s who worked in the twentieth century.

Yevonde will be recognised with the exhibition Yevonde: Life and Colour, which runs from 22 June to 15 October 2023 and surveys the portraits and still-life works the artist created over the course of her 60-year career.

Yevonde: Life and Colour

This exhibition will highlight the freedom photography gave Yevonde, who experimented with solarization and the Vivex colour process, reflecting the increased independence of women at the period. Through study, cataloguing, and digitization of Yevonde’s archive, which the Gallery purchased in 2021, teh exhibition will feature new prints and contemporary finds.

Showing simultaneously is an exhibition of Paul McCartney photographs.

Yevonde: Life and Colour
Mask (Rosemary Chance) by Yevonde (1938, printed 2022-3), purchased with the Portrait Fund, 2021 © National Portrait Gallery, London.

When Is the Exhibition?

22 June to 15 October 2023

Where Is It?

National Portrait Gallery, London.

Further Information

To discover more about the exhibition, click here.


Main image: Vivien Leigh by Yevonde (1936, printed 2022-3), purchased with the Portrait Fund, 2021 © National Portrait Gallery, London.


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June 22, 2023
End:
October 15, 2023
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National Portrait Gallery
St Martin’s Place,
London,WC2H 0HEUnited Kingdom
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