Item #222360 Portrait photograph of Alicia Markova as Marie Taglioni in PAS DE QUATRE. Alicia Markova, Carl Van Vechten.

Inscribed by Markova

Portrait photograph of Alicia Markova as Marie Taglioni in PAS DE QUATRE.

[New York: 1945].

Price: $1,850.00


About the item

Half length frontal portrait of the ballerina in costume, with hands folded in her lap. 1 vols. 25 cm x 18.5 cm. (approximately 9-7/8 x 7-1/4 inches). Inscribed by Markova. Photographer's blind stamp at lower right, ink notations on verso giving the subject of the photograph, and the number of the print/negative ("xii 2 4"). 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 #222360

Inscribed by the great ballerina - one of Van Vechten's favorite subjects - to Van Vechten's assistant:

To Saul / with my very best wishes / always / Alicia Markova / 1945."