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CARL VAN VECHTEN (1880-1964)
Lot 36PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DIANE KEMPLER

CARL VAN VECHTEN (1880-1964)

Six Portraits, 1933-1944

Closed3 April 2024

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USD 8,000–12,000

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CARL VAN VECHTEN (1880-1964)
VAN VECHTEN, C.
Six Portraits, 1933-1944
six gelatin silver prints
portrait of Marcel Duchamp signed and inscribed to Joseph Solomon by Marcel Duchamp and initialed in an unknown hand in ink (recto and verso); each titled, dated, variously numbered and stamped photographer's credit and reproduction limitation in pencil and ink (verso)
image/sheet sizes range from 9 5/8 x 7 ¼ in. (24.4 x 18.4 cm.) to 10 ¾ x 13 5/8 in. (27.3 x 34.6 cm.)

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

Specialist note

Plates are as follows:

1. Isamu Noguchi, 1935
2. Abraham Walkowitz, 1937
3. Marcel Duchamp, 1933
4. Marc Chagall, 1941
5. Henri Matisse, 1933
6. Alexander Calder and his mobile General Sherman, 1947

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