Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Laurie Lee NPG x88804

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ida Kar

Kar photographed Lee at his Chelsea flat a year after the publication of A Rose for Winter (1955), an account of a period spent in Spain with his wife Kathy Polge. The following year, the Hogarth Press paid Lee a £500 advance for his most acclaimed autobiographical work,
Cider with Rosie (1959).

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.