Mar 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2697 -

Sale 2697 - Lot 203

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Photograph of Louis Armstrong being honored by New Orleans musicians at the Astoria Hotel. Photograph, 5½ x 8½ inches, with embossed photographer's stamp in lower margin; worn and creased, 4 short tape repairs on verso, captioned on verso in a later hand; inked stamp on verso from the Frank Driggs Collection. New Orleans, LA, summer 1931
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The photograph was taken by Black photographer Villard Paddio (circa 1894-1947) of New Orleans, who was Armstrong's favorite for years. Provenance: collection of record producer and historian Frank Driggs (1930-2011); published in 1994 as part of the Driggs Collection in Miller's "Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy," page 52; exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art and in a subsequent national touring exhibition of the same name from 1994 to 1996 which closed at the National Portrait Gallery; Swann sale, 26 March 2015, part of lot 477.

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