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YOUSUF KARSH (1908-2002)
Karsh—Fifteen Portraits.
A portfolio with 15 (of 15)
oversized photographic portraits by Karsh. Silver
prints, the images measuring 23
3
/
4
x19
7
/
8
inches
(60.3x50.5 cm.), and smaller, the mounts 30x24
inches (76.2x61 cm.), each with Karsh’s signature,
in ink, and the edition notation 23/100, in pencil,
on mount recto. Elephant folio, linen clamshell box
with the stamped leather title; with the colophon;
in the original shipping box; contents loose as
issued. ONE OF 100 NUMBERED COPIES.
Weston Gallery, 1941-70; printed 1983
[40,000/60,000]
Muhammad Ali
, 1970 *
Pablo Casals
, 1954 *
Marc
Chagall,
1965 *
Winston Churchill,
1941 *
Jacques
Cousteau,
1972 *
Albert Einstein,
1948 *
Robert
Frost,
1958 *
Ernest Hemingway,
1957 *
Helen
Keller,
1948 *
Joan Miro,
1967 *
Georgia O’Keeffe,
1956 *
Pablo Picasso,
1954 *
Albert Schweitzer,
1954
*
George Bernard Shaw,
1943 *
Jean Sibelius,
1949.