Elsbeth Juda (Jay)

Digital print. Signed and numbered 6/8 in black felt tip pen and with the L'Equipement des Arts blind stamp. Hahnemule hologram on the reverse. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Elsbeth Juda. Photographs 1940-1965 (exhibition catalogue), L'Equipement des Arts, London, 2009, illustrated p. 42.

This print is in excellent condition.
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In 1954 Elsbeth Juda took a series of photographs of Winston Churchill at the request of her friend Graham Sutherland. The painter asked her to provide visual reference for his portrait of the 79-year-old Prime Minister for which he was commissioned by both Houses of Parliament to mark Churchill’s 80th birthday. The previous year Churchill had suffered a stroke and his renowned vigour was fading. Posing in his trademark zip-up ‘siren suit’, the sitter expected that the painted portrait would show him in the formal robes of a Knight of the Garter and was deeply wounded when discovering that was portrayed in everyday wear showing the advance of age. Unveiled in 1954 the portrait was never seen in public again and was in fact destroyed in 1965 leaving Elsbeth Juda’s photographs as a fascinating and distinct record of this singular episode.