Portrait photograph of Countee Cullen

by Countee Cullen, Carl Van Vechten

$2,250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Half-length, frontal view, leaning against a tree. Vintage gelatin silver print. Embossed stamp lower right, atelier stamp on rear, and docketed by Van Vechten with the name of the subject, and reference number XV-V-1 . 1 vols. 7 x 5 inches. Matted and framed. 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 . Item #224150

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