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Conrad, Joseph
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Conrad, Joseph
- Seated portrait, 1919.
- ink, paper
Malcolm Arbuthnot, photographer.
Silverprint, 195 x 150 mm., seated half length portrait of Conrad, blind-stamped in the image "Malcolm Arbuthnot 43 & 44 New Bond Street" and signed by the photographer in pencil on the card mount; minor crease, light silvering to bottom edge, some spotting to matt. Modern frame and glaze.
Silverprint, 195 x 150 mm., seated half length portrait of Conrad, blind-stamped in the image "Malcolm Arbuthnot 43 & 44 New Bond Street" and signed by the photographer in pencil on the card mount; minor crease, light silvering to bottom edge, some spotting to matt. Modern frame and glaze.
Catalogue Note
the author's portrait inscribed to his first biographer " A Jean Aubry son amis Joseph Conrad 1919".
Conrad recorded this July 1919 session with the famed society photographer as "had 14 shots fired at me by Arbuthnot" (Conrad to Pinker, 17 July 1919, Collected Letters, VI, p.449).