Item #218890 Portrait photograph of William Saroyan. William Saroyan, Carl Van Vechten.

Portrait photograph of William Saroyan.

[New York]: May 3, 1935.

Price: $1,500.00


About the item

Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 35 x 27.3 cm. Atelier stamp lower right, with pencilled notations on verso giving the subject of the photograph, the date, and the number of the negative ("XIII h : 11").

Item #218890

Half-length portrait of the 27-year-old Saroyan, seated with arms folded, soon after the triumphant reception of his first collection of short stories, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935).