Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 188

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ENTERTAINMENT--DANCE.) Four photographs of Katherine Dunham performing one of her early compositions; with a later program. 4 different photographs, 8½ x 6½ inches, each with identical typescript caption tipped to verso, and inked International News Photo stamp on verso; minimal wear. New York, circa 1938

Additional Details

These four photographs show Dunham in motion while performing the cambois dance in her 1938 composition L'Ag'Ya, based on Martinique folk dancing.

With--Playbill for "Katherine Dunham and Her Company" performing at the Broadway Theatre. 24 pages, tack hole in one corner, a bit musty. New York, 12 December 1955.