Van Vechten Portrait, Signed by Menotti
Portrait photograph of Gian-Carlo Menotti.
New York: [December 10, 1944].
Price: $1,250.00
About the item
Bust portrait. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 25 x 20 cm. (approximately 9-7/8 x 7-7/8 inches). Van Vechten Portrait, Signed by Menotti. Van Vechten's blind stamp lower left, atelier stamp on verso, docketed in green ink, giving the name of the sitter and negative reference ("XIX - aa - 4"). From the Estate of Saul Mauriber, Van Vechten's assistant, and the editor/compiler of PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN (1978).
Item #222446
A far more successful portrait of the 33-year-old Menotti than the one in the Library of Congress, and signed simply by the composer in the left margin: "Gian"
