Katharine Burton (Mrs Carl Kostyal) Country Life Magazine Portrait October 12 2006

Katharine Burton (Mrs Carl Kostyal) Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, October 12 2006. CC No. 41

Katharine Burton (Mrs Carl Kostyal) is a specialist in Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie's in London. She is co-head of the Contemporary Sale, which takes place at 8, King Street, St James's, SW1, this Sunday, October 15, to coincide with the Frieze Art Fair. Seen here with a selection of paintings from the sale, Katharine was previously a curator and exhibitions' organiser at the South London Gallery and worked for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.

This is an authentic original page from Country Life magazine, part of the iconic series often affectionately referred to as the “Girls in Pearls” portraits — elegant society images that captured a distinctive era of British publishing and portraiture.

Size: Approximately 12.5 x 9 inches (32 x 23 cm)

Condition: Very good for its age. As with all vintage magazine pages, light signs of handling or minor age-related blemishes may be present. Please review the large photo carefully for full condition details. The reverse side contains unrelated printed text, as issued.

This original Country Life Magazine frontispiece portrait forms part of The Old Map Shop’s curated archive of society portraits published between 1897 and 2026.