Portrait photograph of Sinclair Lewis

by Sinclair Lewis, Carl Van Vechten

$3,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Half-length portrait of the seated author, head resting in his hand. Vintage gelatin silver print. Verso docketed with holograph notations in pencil, giving the name of the sitter, date of the photograph, and Van Vechten's reference to negative and print XXXI L . 1 vols. 13-7/8 x 10-7/8 inches. Matted and framed. Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber, Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten

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