Portrait photograph of Orson Welles as Doctor Faustus

by Orson Welles, Carl Van Vechten

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

Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 , edited by Saul Mauriber. Half-length, in costume. 1 vols. 25.6 x 17.9 cm Approximately 9-7/8 x 7 inches . Embossed stamp lower right, atelier stamp on rear, docketed with the name of the subject, and number of the print VIII K 14 . Item #220745 A rare pre-Hollywood image of the 22-year-old Welles as Faustus in his adaptation of the Marlowe

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