Liberace, wearing red trousers. Colour photographic postcard after A. Leibowitz, 1981.

Date:
1981
Reference:
2059138i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Liberace, wearing red trousers. Colour photographic postcard after A. Leibowitz, 1981. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Publication/Creation

Rancho Cordova (PO Box 314, CA 95670) : Coral-Lee, 1981.

Physical description

1 photographic postcard : printed in colours ; 13.9 x 8.8 cm.

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Liberace

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Liberace ( 1919-1987), in a colour postcard from a 1981 photograph by Annie Leibovitz. Despite his stage persona, in an act built on the most outrageous (tasteless; gaudy) costumes, props and jewellery, Liberace persistently denied his homosexuality, even at one point in 1958 suing the British journalist Donald Zec for suggesting it in print. Liberace won the case. However, he was finally outed by his death from AIDS-related illness in 1990, and the subsequent publication and filming of the biography of an ex-lover, Scott Thorsen".

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2059138i

Creator/production credits

"SC17850-Colorphoto © Annie Leibovitz. 1981 Contact. Mike Roberts Color Production, Oakland, CA 94623"

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  • Romantic fantasy and comic postcards

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