Glyndebourne Programme Book

The 1980s

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1980
Cover by Erté (1892–1990)

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1981
Cover by Elizabeth Bury (b.1941)

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1982
Cover by Maurice Sendak (1928–2012)

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1983
Cover by Allen Charles Klein (?–?)

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1984
Cover by Valerie Sargent (?–?)

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1985
Cover by Maurice Sendak (1928–2012)

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1986
Cover by John Gunter (b.1938)

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1987
Cover by Sue Blane (b.1949)

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1988
Cover by Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017)

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1989
Cover by David Hockney (b.1937)

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