Item #218957 Portrait photograph of Sinclair Lewis. Sinclair Lewis, Carl Van Vechten.

Portrait photograph of Sinclair Lewis.

New York: January 5, 1938.

Price: $3,000.00


About the item

Half-length portrait of the seated author, head resting in his hand. Vintage gelatin silver print. Verso docketed with holograph notations in pencil, giving the name of the sitter, date of the photograph, and Van Vechten's reference to negative and print ("XXXI L"). 1 vols. 13-7/8 x 10-7/8 inches. Matted and framed. Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber, Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978).

Item #218957

Published in Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber.