Waugh-related items in Bonham’s sale, March 29th

The Bonham's auction Papers & Portraits: The Roy Davids Collection Part II, to be held on March 29th, includes three lots related to Evelyn Waugh: two photographic portraits (lots 245 and 246), and an unpublished letter (lot 247).

Viewing dates and other information is available here (enter "waugh" in the "Description contains" field to see only the Waugh-related items).

Update (March 30): Lot 245, a 1963 portrait of Waugh in the grounds of Combe Florey House by Mark Gerson, showing Waugh "full-length facing the camera, wearing his hat and famous dog-tooth check three-piece suit, his hands thrust into the side pockets of his jacket, standing between a pair of sphinx ornaments," sold for £840. Lot 246, a 1948 portrait of Waugh by Carl Van Vechten, appears not to have sold. Lot 247, an unpublished letter from Waugh to Terence Concannon, also fetched £840.

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