RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH: A LIFE BOTH SIDES OF THE CAMERA Wednesday 21 October 2015 RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH A LIFE BOTH SIDES OF THE CAMERA Wednesday 21 October 2015 at 10am Knightsbridge, London VIEWING ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES PHYSICAL CONDITION OF Saturday 17 October 11am to 3pm Head of Sale Monday to Friday 8.30 to 6.00 LOTS IN THIS AUCTION Sunday 18 October 11am to 3pm Emma Corke +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Monday 19 October 9am to 4:30pm +44 (0) 20 7393 3949 PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY Tuesday 20 October 9am to 4:30pm [email protected] Please see page 2 for bidder REFERENCE IN THIS information including after-sale CATALOGUE TO THE PHYSICAL SALE NUMBER Entertainment Memorabilia collection and shipment CONDITION OF ANY LOT IS 22874 Natalie Downing FOR GENERAL GUIDANCE +44 (0) 20 7393 3844 ILLUSTRATIONS ONLY. INTENDING BIDDERS CATALOGUE [email protected] Front cover: 466 (part lot) MUST SATISFY THEMSELVES £15.00 Inside front cover: 86 AS TO THE CONDITION OF ANY Press Inside back cover: 433 LOT AS SPECIFIED IN CLAUSE BIDS Andrew Currie Back cover: 387 14 OF THE NOTICE TO BIDDERS +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 +44 (0) 20 7468 5871 CONTAINED AT THE END OF +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax [email protected] All lots with an estimate less THIS CATALOGUE. To bid via the internet please than £2,000 to be sold without visit bonhams.com reserve. As a courtesy to intending bidders, Bonhams will provide a Please note that bids should be written indication of the physical submitted no later than 4pm on condition of lots in this sale if a the day prior to the sale. New request is received up to 24 bidders must also provide proof hours before the auction starts. of identity when submitting bids. This written Indication is issued Failure to do this may result in subject to Clause 3 of the Notice your bid not being processed. to Bidders. Bidding by telephone will only IMPORTANT INFORMATION be accepted on a lot with a lower The United States Government estimate in excess of £500. has banned the import of ivory into the USA. 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The regulations of photographic ID. may be found at www.ukcites. gov.uk or may be requested from: UK CITES Management Authority Zone 117 Temple Quay House 2 The Square Temple Quay BRISTOL BS1 6EB INTRODUCTION Looking back, my childhood was truly blessed. How lucky was I to be brought up in a large rambling seventeenth century house, sandwiched between the Thames and Richmond Green, only yards from Richmond Palace, where Elizabeth I lived and died. But most glorious of all, to be surrounded by and live amongst some of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen. My parents had impeccable taste, they never bought anything as an investment, but simply because they loved it; and they lived by the firm conviction that beautiful surroundings had the power to humanise, to enrich one’s relationship with the world. As a consequence, my sisters and I were brought up amidst a quite ravishing array of objets d’art, big and small, valuable and inexpensive, that adorned our home, a home my mother and father lived in for well over sixty years. As you will see, the scale and range is extraordinary - from Picasso to some of England’s finest twentieth century artists, frequently discovered by my father well before they became household names. Then there is Dad’s work. Trophies and mementoes from an acting career that established him as an international star; spanning seventy years, from Noël Coward’s In Which We Serve to Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park. Plus of course the movies he famously directed. Movies that always bore his unmistakable signature, characterised by a passion for his subjects and the tireless devotion he lavished upon them. This, his very own Collection, is replete with utterly unique, one- off insights into the creative planning and artistic decisions that informed his painstaking work as a director. He once wrote to me from a distant location, “Darling son, movies are the mirror we hold up to ourselves, the reflection of our codes and practices, our comedy and tragedy, our past and present. They have the ability to grant us, as no other medium can, a world-wide voice. I have no interest in preaching to the converted. I want to reach as wide an audience as possible, even the antagonistic.