Portrait photograph of George M. Cohan

by George M. Cohan, Carl Van Vechten

$3,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Bust portrait. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 34.6 x 27.7 cm. approximately 13-5/8 x 11 inches . Fine. Docketed in ink on verso, giving the name of the sitter, and a reference to negative and print XI - E- 33 . Item #219105 Superb character portrait of the great entertainer, and by far the best of the portraits from the session of Oct 23, 1935 in Van Vechten's studio, of which the Library of Congress has 12 examples -- but not this.

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