Ian Fleming Portrait By Amherst Villiers
By: FSWL team
Published:
2013-11-15
A limited edition giclée print of the only formal portrait of Ian Fleming, painted in 1962 by Charles Amherst Villiers (a close friend of Fleming's), is now exclusively available from Adrian Harrington Rare Books in London.
The painting was used as a frontispiece to the signed limited edition
On Her Majesty's Secret Service, first published by Jonathan Cape in 1963, and has subsequently hung in the National Portrait Gallery, and
The Fleming Collection Art Gallery in London on 13 Berkeley Street. (The Fleming Collection now have it in storage, and may re-hang it in the future.)
Details:
Dimensions: 24 x 30 inch (circa 61 x 76 cm)
Printed on high quality art paper
Price: 89.95 GBP (from the UK) / 120 USD (from the US)
US inquiries: Contact Brad Frank at bradfrank007(a)yahoo.com
Editor's note:
FSWL has bought a printed copy of the original Ian Fleming painting and we absolutely love it, and now without doubt one of the front pieces in our collection. As much as we love the James Bond actors, their lives wouldn't have been the same without Fleming.
In 2009, Paul Kenny's excellent book
The Man Who Supercharged Bond, the extraordinary story of Charles Amherst Villiers, was published by J H Haynes & Co Ltd.
For posts featuring Ian Fleming's novel on
From Sweden with Love,
click here.
Photo above:
Our good friend Brad Frank next to the original portrait of Ian Fleming by Charles Amherst Villiers in London (the limited edition prints are virtually the same size as the original). © 2013 From Sweden with Love.
Order the limited edition giclée print of the only formal portrait of Ian Fleming:
www.jamesbondfirsteditions.com/shop/jamesbond/41182.html
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