Yousuf Karsh

(Carmel: Weston Gallery, 1983, an edition of 100), a portfolio of 15 oversized photographs, each mounted, signed in ink and edition number '7/100' in pencil on the mount, 1948-72, printed in 1983.  Elephant folio, taupe linen clamshell box with the blindstamped leather label

These photographs are in generally excellent condition except where noted. The plates are as follows: Muhammad Ali Pablo Casals Marc Chagall Winston Churchill Jacques Cousteau Albert Einstein Robert Frost Ernest Hemingway - There is a pencil-point-sized slight indentation that does not break the emulsion to the left of the sitter's face. Helen Keller - There is a fingerprint on the lower left mount edge. Joan Miro Georgia O'Keeffe Pablo Picasso Albert Schweitzer George Bernard Shaw - There is a fingerprint on the upper left mount edge. Jean Sibelius The portfolio box is in generally very good to excellent condition with stray linear marks of light soiling and rubbing at the extremities. Karsh: A Fifty-Year Retrospective, pp. 38, 61, 70, 81, 111, 121, 144, 146, and 163
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