Mar 29, 2018 - Sale 2471

Sale 2471 - Lot 302

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MUSIC.) Leonard, Herman; photographer. Photograph of Duke Ellington's shoes in a Paris dressing room. Gelatin silver print, 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches, captioned and signed by the photographer in image. Paris, 1958; printed circa 1994
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An artistic composition titled "Duke Ellington, Paris" and dated 1958. It shows the bandleader's shoes and tie, along with a small teapot and half-finished cup of tea, laid out in front of a dressing-room mirror. It is accompanied by a letter from the photographer to the consignor dated 31 August 1994. with--an unrelated color print titled "Stripes-Paris-1960," 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches to sight, signed and captioned by Leonard and a group of 8 photographic posters of musicians, 16 x 20 inches, each signed by photographer Lee Tanner in the image, uncaptioned, with his stickers on verso.