23 Nov 2010
13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street
Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs
Back to auction 17860
Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs
Back to auction 17860
GERSON (MARK)
Portrait of Edith Sitwell, holding her cat Leo, vintage bromide print, window-mounted, signed on the mount in pencil by the photographer, photographer's stamp on verso, image 250 x 200mm., [1962]
Sold for
£660
inc. premium
Footnotes
- After the sitting Edith Sitwell wrote to Mark Gerson "How kind of you to send me those lovely photographs of Leo [her cat]. You have made him so majestic: so no matter how fine the photographs of me maybe, it is Leo who should figure on the cover of "Books and Bookmen... May 26th, 1962".
Category: Books / Books, Maps and Manuscripts
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