Margaret Bourke-White

with black ink border, framed, accompanied by fragments of the original mount, signed and titled in ink, and with the 'Photo by Margaret Bourke-White' stamp, and inscriptions 'With my compliments - Meg/ Ditto MY Ditto DS/ And Mine HS' in pencil and crayon, on the reverse, 1935 (Callahan, pp. 50-51; Portrait of Myself, cover, cropped)

From the Collection of Lee Miller

Sotheby's London, 2 May 1997, Sale 7266, Lot 499

This impressive, slightly warm-toned early print, on double-weight paper with a semi-matte surface, is in excellent condition. There is a tiny small loss of black ink in the upper left border corner. There is a Keith de Lellis, New York, gallery label on the reverse of the frame.
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The inscription signed 'Meg' is by Margaret Bourke-White, and the 'DS' is likely Dave Scherman, LIFE photographer and correspondent, who met Lee Miller and worked with her in Europe during World War II.