Lot 101
  • 101

Yousuf Karsh (1908 - 2002)

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Yousuf Karsh
  • Georgia O'Keefe, 1956
  • photograph on paper
Tirage argentique postérieur, contrecollé sur carton. Signé Y. Karsh à l'encre en bas à gauche sur le carton sous l'image. Au verso du carton, titré et daté Georgia O'Keefe 1956 au crayon d'une main non identifiée.

Silver print, printed later, flush-mounted to card. Signed in ink on the card.

Provenance

La succession du photographe

Literature

Dieter Vorsteher/ Janet Yates (éd.), Yousuf Karsh. Heroes of Light and Shadow, Toronto, Stoddart, 2001, ill. p. 41.

Condition

In excellent condition. The print was probably executed in the late 1970s/ early 1980s.
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