Portrait photograph of Alexander Calder

by Alexander Calder, Carl Van Vechten

$1,200 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Half-length view of the artist seated, assembling a mobile. 1 vols. 24.3 x 17.5 cm. 9-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches . Photographer's embossed stamp at lower right, verso with atelier stamp and pencil notations, giving the name of the sitter Alexander Calder and General Sherman , date, and the the photographer's negative VIII - DD - 16 . From the estate of Saul Mauriber, Van Vechten's assistant and the compiler of PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN 1978 . Item #222167

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