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YOUSUF KARSH (1908-2002)
Lot 366

YOUSUF KARSH (1908-2002)

Georgia O'Keeffe, 1959

Closed15 April 2010

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USD 6,875

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YOUSUF KARSH (1908-2002)
Georgia O'Keeffe, 1959
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1986
signed in ink (on the mount); dated in ink and copyright credit stamp (on the reverse of the mount); accompanied by typed letter, signed in ink and dated October 6, 1986
19 7/8 x 15¾in. (50.8 x 40.5cm.)

Specialist note

Karsh's letter to the original owner, accompanying this print, reads as follows: 'I am pleased to learn that your parents' Demitasse and our poodle Clicquot, where [sic] brother and sister, if not cousins. We enjoyed our little poodle for almost 15 years, and we have a garden in his memory. The print of Georgia O'Keeffe is on its way to you under separate cover. With every good wish.'