Mar 28, 2019 - Sale 2503

Sale 2503 - Lot 361

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Van Der Zee, James; photographer. Promotional photograph of James Berry of the famed Berry Brothers. Silver print, 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches to sight, signed and dated by the photographer in the negative, and signed in the image "To Otto and Nan, from James G. Berry, Moulin Rouge, Paris, 1929." Not examined out of the original Parisian frame. New York, 1928
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James Berry (1915-1969) and his brothers Nyas and Warren Berry began performing as small children in Chicago, Denver, and finally Hollywood, and then toured Europe in 1929. Here James is posed by the renowned Harlem photographer James Van Der Zee, with his pronouncement "Home" scratched into the negative. Berry inscribed it a year later in the midst of the act's European tour.