Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Eugène Ionesco NPG x127776

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ida Kar

Romanian-born Ionesco is seen at his writing desk; on the right hangs a poster for his play, Victims of Duty (1953), and on the left are copies of The Possessed by Dostoevsky. At the time of the opening of Kar's Whitechapel exhibition, Ionesco's Rhinocéros (1959) was being staged at the Royal Court Theatre, directed by Orson Welles.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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