[John Minihan Collection] – [Beckett, Samuel] Minihan, John. (*1946)

“Samuel Beckett looking at one of his books that featured drawings by the Paris Artist Avigdor Arikha – Riverside Studios, London 1984”.

Rare, modern print of the 1984 Original / Vintage Photograph on archival paper. London, c. 2017. Photograph: c. 38 cm wide x 50 cm high / Framed: 47 cm wide x 60 cm high. Titled and signed by John Minihan. From John Minihan’s personal library. Mounted and framed.

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, and literary critic. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. Beckett is widely regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century, credited with transforming modern theatre. As a major figure of Irish literature, he is best known for his tragicomedy play ‘Waiting for Godot’ (1953). For his foundational contribution to both literature and theatre, Beckett received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature, “for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation.” (Wikipedia)

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• Inventory Number: 900142AG