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Lot 67

FROST, ROBERT. 1874-1963.
Photograph Signed ("Robert") and Inscribed "to Reginald with the best," 9 x 7 1/2 inch gelatin silver print,

4 June 2014, 13:00 EDT
New York

US$700 - US$900

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FROST, ROBERT. 1874-1963.

Photograph Signed ("Robert") and Inscribed "to Reginald with the best," 9 x 7 1/2 inch gelatin silver print, by CLARA SIPPRELL, signed in mount by the photographer in pencil, in paper folder with studio monogram, uneven toning to folder.
Provenance: Reginald L. Cook; by descent to present owner.

A striking portrait of an aged Frost seated at a table with a book and grinning genially, inscribed to Frost's comrade and Bread Loaf director Reginald L. Cook. The Canadian-American photographer Clara Sipprell (1885-1975) also shot the portraits of Frost which appeared as frontispieces in The Complete Poems (1949) and The Poetry of Robert Frost (1969). She produced portraits of numerous other 20th Century icons as well, including Alfred Stieglitz, Pearl S. Buck, W.E.B. Dubois, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Langston Hughes. With Frost's encouragement Sipprell moved to Manchester, Vermont, in 1937, where she settled for the rest of her life.

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