Portrait photograph of William Somerset Maugham.
London, Park Square Gardens: May 26, 1934.
Price: $3,750.00
About the item
Variant print of the portraits published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Frontal bust portrait. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 35 x 24 cm. (approx 14 x 11 inches). Fine. Verso docketed in pencil holograph notations giving the name of the sitter, date of the photograph, and the the Van Vechten's reference to negative and print ("XXI f - 17").
Item #218936
One of the finest portraits of the novelist taken in his middle years. Van Vechen and Maugham were friends.
