Portrait photograph of Thomas Mann

by Thomas Mann, Carl Van Vechten

$2,750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Bust portrait of the author, with building in background. 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 XXIV K . 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

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