HEANEY, Seamus. Signed and Dated Colour Portrait Photograph.

Colour photographic portrait of Seamus Heaney, signed and dated in black ink to lower margin: “Seamus Heaney, 24 June 2008.” Image approx. 13x 18 cm. Clean and bright, signature strong and unfaded. Fine.

A fine signed portrait of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney (1939–2013), one of Ireland’s most celebrated poets of the twentieth century and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. The signature is clear, bold, and well-positioned beneath the image, fully legible and dated during the later period of Heaney’s life, five years before his death.

The present photograph captures Heaney in later maturity, reflective and composed — an image consonant with the gravitas of his later collections including District and Circle (2006) and Human Chain (2010).

A desirable autograph of one of Ireland’s greatest literary figures.

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