Item 304681Portrait photograph of Djuna Barnes.
Price: $300
Ca. 1970s. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Djuna Barnes Add to Wish List
Item #304681
This week, James Cummins Bookseller is pleased to present a selection of portraits and caricatures of literary, artistic and historical figures.
Price: $300
Ca. 1970s. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Djuna Barnes Add to Wish List
Item #304681
Price: $2,500
[Paris: 1926]. No. 2 of 35 copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED by the artist in pencil; with his stamp lower left. Rouault's Baudelaire. Superb image of the brooding genius so greatly admired by Rouault, who included it in the second edition of his collection, SOUVENIRS INTIMES (Paris: E. Frapier, 1927), with..... Read More Item Details for Portrait of Charles Baudelaire Add to Wish List
Item #234586
Price: $3,750
[New York: March 24, 1938]. Van Vechten, Carl. Reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAITS (1978). Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Margaret Bourke-White Add to Wish List
Item #220748
Price: $4,000
New York: July 4, 1941. Variant of the portrait from the same session published in Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978). Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Marc Chagall Add to Wish List
Item #219115
Price: $1,500
[Paris]: Oct 14, 1949. Portrait of Cocteau leaning over the balustrade of a rooftop. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Jean Cocteau Add to Wish List
Item #211175
Price: $750
[Montreux, Switzerland: ca. 1965]. The Wingèd Coward. A famous image of the playwright in his Swiss chalet, taken by the celebrated Swiss photographer Horst Tappe, INSCRIBED to the novelist (aka "Patrick Quentin") and librettist HUGH WHEELER, who wrote the book for musicals SWEENEY TODD, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, and CANDIDE..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Noel Coward seated in his living room, framed by angel's wings Add to Wish List
Item #232245
Price: $750
New York: n.d. ca late 1930's. The Master. Beautifully composed portrait of Noel Coward, at his most suave and debonair, by the noted photographer of society and stage. Read More Item Details for Portrait of Noel Coward Add to Wish List
Item #59412
Price: $2,250
[New York, Central Park: June 20, 1941]. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Countee Cullen Add to Wish List
Item #224150
Price: $3,000
New York: January 29, 1959. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Baroness Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) Add to Wish List
Item #223052
Price: $300
n.p: n.d. Self portrait done at the request of collector Burt Britton. INSCRIBED, “For Burt Britton / Margaret Drabble”. Read More Item Details for Self-portrait Add to Wish List
Item #245720
Price: $750
New York: 14 Dec 1938. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Edna Ferber Add to Wish List
Item #57790
Price: $2,500
[Carmel, Calif: 1927]. Hagemeyer Portrait of Suffragist Sara Bard Field. Magnificent portrait of the great suffragist, reformer, activist, free-thinker, and poet, Sara Bard Field (1882-1974). Field was also the passionate lover of the anarchist C.E.S. Wood, and the couple lived together in a celebrated "free union" first in San Francisco..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Sara Bard Field Add to Wish List
Item #225931
Price: $600
[Cambridge: Harvard University, 1867]. A distinctive portrait of the young Lowell reading, possibly from his Harvard 1867 photographic yearbook. Lowell wrote a history of the French Revolution and practiced law. Read More Item Details for Portrait of historian Edward J. Lowell, reading Add to Wish List
Item #238429
Price: $1,000
New York: June 28, 1955. Reproduced (from this print) in PORTRAITS: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978). Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Chester Himes Add to Wish List
Item #222115
Price: $1,500
[Vence, France: 1951]. Printed circa 1980? Matisse in Vence, at Work on Chapelle Matisse. Superb, large portrait of the artist in front of his famous Chapel, the work he considered his magnum opus, and which he completed in 1951, the year this photo was taken by the acclaimed Russian-born LIFE..... Read More Item Details for Portrait of Henri Matisse taking a stroll in front of the Chapelle Matisse in Vence Add to Wish List
Item #232449
Price: $3,750
London, Park Square Gardens: May 26, 1934. Variant print of the portraits published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. One of the finest portraits of the novelist taken in his middle years. Van Vechen and Maugham were friends. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of William Somerset Maugham Add to Wish List
Item #218936
Price: $900
[Edinburgh: August, 1962, printed ca. 1990’s]. Candid portrait photograph of Henry Miller in spectacles and flat cap, taken at the 1962 International Writers’ Conference held at McEwan Hall, Edinburgh. The conference — which was on the subject of “The Novel Today” — was organized by the publisher John Calder and..... Read More Item Details for Photograph of Henry Miller at the 1962 International Writers Conference Add to Wish List
Item #247855
Price: $2,250
[New York]: September 5, 1933. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Fine, atmospheric portrait of the playwright. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Eugene O'Neill Add to Wish List
Item #218818
Price: $1,000
[New York]: Pach Brothers, n.d. [c. 1978?]. Rare and Early Oates Portrait. A fine, early, portrait of the young author -- one of America's most gifted writers of the latter half of the 20th century -- by the historic commercial New York photography studio, the Pach Brothers. Oates won the..... Read More Item Details for Bust Portrait of Joyce Carol Oates, signed ("Joyce Carol Oates") Add to Wish List
Item #56589
Price: $1,500
1907. Etching on paper; paper 11-3/4 x 9 inches, plate 5-3/4 x 4 inches. Delicate and Sympathetic Portrait of the Young Wilde. Hermann Struck (1876-1944)is recognized for his extensive landscapes and portraits of noted personalities in early 20th century Europe, including Herzl, Ibsen, Nietzsche, Freud, Einstein, Rutenberg et al. He..... Read More Item Details for Portrait of Oscar Wilde Add to Wish List
Item #62917
Price: $1,000
Washington, D.C: Harris & Ewing, n.d. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Inscribed to Antonio C. Gonzalez (1888-1965), New York attorney and FDR’s ambassador to Panama, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Read More Item Details for Oval photographic portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, Signed and inscribed as First Lady “To Mr Gonzalez, with Best Wishes, Eleanor Roosevelt” Add to Wish List
Item #238146
Price: $250
n.p: n.d. [c. 1925]. Fine, impressionistic portrait of the elderly Austrian author (1862-1931), with white beard and hair. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Arthur Schnitzler Add to Wish List
Item #231660
Price: $1,250
n.p: 1892. Kruell, Gustav. Harriet Beecher Stowe Engraving with Artist's Autograph Letter, signed. Gustav Kruell (1843-1907) was born in Germany and established himself as an engraver in Stuttgart. He came to the US in 1873, and quickly obtained commissions from the leading illustrated periodicals. He fell under the artistic influence..... Read More Item Details for Proof portrait wood engraving of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and artist's Autograph Letter, signed concerning it, with another engraving of unidentified man Add to Wish List
Item #43578
Price: $250
np: nd. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Tarkington signed in pencil on mount below photo by photographer A. H. McLean and by Tarkington over edge of mat onto mount Add to Wish List
Item #47230
Price: $1,000
[New York]: Nov. 1, 1948. Fine, small portait of the poet in bowtie, seated in a chair before a wall of books; clearly taken during the same session as the famous Van Vechten portrait in the Library of Congress ([LC-USZ62-42513]). Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Marianne Moore Add to Wish List
Item #211161