Portrait photograph of Pearl Bailey in "St. Louis Woman"
New York: July 5, 1946.
Price: $950.00
About the item
reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAIT: The Photography of Carl van Vechten (from this print). Half-length view of the performer in costume. 1 vols. 34.5 x 24 cm (13-5/8 x 9-1/2 inches). Fine. Atelier stamped on verso, docketed by Van Vechten in ink, recording the subject of the photograph ("Pearl Bailey takes a call after singing A Womans Prerogative"), the date, the number of the negative ("vi - cc - 3"), and indications to the printer for reduction. 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).
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