Portrait photograph of Chester Himes

by Chester Himes, Carl Van Vechten

$1,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Reproduced from this print in PORTRAITS: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten 1978 . Half-length view of the author seated, with hand folded in lap. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 33.2 x 23.6 cm 13 x 9-1/4 inches . Fine Atelier stamped on verso, docketed by Van Vechten in pencil, recording the subject of the photograph Cab Calloway , the date, the number of the negative xv - nn - 8 . Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber, Van

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