21st May, 2026 12:00
Fine Photographs
Bert Hardy (1913-1995)
Maidens in Waiting, Blackpool, 1951
Silver gelatin print, printed later, image size 31.5 x 25.5cm, sheet size 40.5 x 30.5cm, signed by the photographer in ink lower margin recto, annotated 'Property of The Photographers' Gallery, London' in pencil verso, with Hardy's Chartlands Farm stamp verso.
Two women chatting on the railings in Blackpool, July 1951. - Picture Post Magazine, July 14, 1951.
[As per the Picture Post/Hulton/Getty Archive, this picture was taken by Hardy using a single-focus box camera; the women are former Tiller Girls Pat Wilson (right) of Bridgend, mid Glamorgan, and Wendy Clarke of Southall in London.]
Purchased from The Photographers’ Gallery, London, in 1991 on the occasion of an exhibition of Hardy’s photographs in Edinburgh, and thereafter by succession.
Sold for £3,528
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