Portrait photograph of Ruth Ann Koesun in Anthony Tudor's ballet, SHADOW OF THE WIND.
New York: April 23, 1948.
Price: $900.00
About the item
Half length frontal portrait of the ballerina in costume. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 24.2 cm x 17.5 cm. (approximately 9-1/2 x 7 inches). Atelier stamp on rear, and docketed in nk wth the subject of the photograph, date, and the number of the print/negative ("vii ee 0"). 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 #222402
A very scarce image of Koesun, one of the stars of the American Ballet Theater in the 40s and 50s. There are no images of Koesun in the Van Vechten collection of the Library of Congress. Inscribed to Mauriber.
