Portrait photograph of Hugh Laing in the ballet JARDIN AUX LILAS.
[New York: 1940 Feb. 16].
Price: $900.00
About the item
Profile portrit of the dancer in costume, as he appeared in the Anthony Tudor ballet. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 25 cm x 20 cm. (approximately 10 x 8 inches). Docketed on verso giving the subject of the photograph, and the number of the print/negative ("XX Q 2"). 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 #222407
A very scarce image Laing as he appeared in the Anthony Tudor ballet, and not in the Van Vechten collection of the Library of Congress.
Inscribed to Mauriber in 1944.
