Portrait photograph of Burl Ives

by Burl Ives, Carl Van Vechten

$750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Variant of the portrait reproduced in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten, 1978 , edited by Saul Mauriber. Half-length portrait of the seated musician, singing and playing the guitar. 1 vols. 32 x 24 cm. approximately 12-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches . Fine. Docketed on rear in ink, giving the name of the sitter Burl Ives: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , the date of the session, and reference to negative and print I - NN - 2 .

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