Portrait photograph of Alicia Markova as Marie Taglioni in PAS DE QUATRE

by Alicia Markova, Carl Van Vechten

$1,850 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Half length frontal portrait of the ballerina in costume, with hands folded in her lap. 1 vols. 25 cm x 18.5 cm. approximately 9-7/8 x 7-1/4 inches . Photographer's blind stamp at lower right, ink notations on verso giving the subject of the photograph, and the number of the print/negative xii 2 4 . Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber, Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN 1978 .

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