Sale 1183
| Chicago
| Chicago
Estimate$7,000 – $9,000
Provenance:
Sotheby's New York, October 15, 1992, lot 320;
to a Private Collection, New York
This photograph was originally a gift from Cartier-Bresson to its former owner. The two met during a drive, along with George Miles, to Carson McCullers’ Nyack home where Bresson took this double portrait. McCullers was best known for her books The Heart is A Lonely Hunter (1940) and The Member of the Wedding (1946); Davis was the fiction and features editor at Harper’s Bazaar and Mademoiselle from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Neutral-warm toned print on semi-gloss, double-weight paper with uneven margins. Small fissure, center-image, visible under inspection; lower right corner creased; paper cockling; and remains of adhesive on print verso, none affecting the image significantly. A unique print, with significant provenance, in good/ very good condition overall. Sold unframed.
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