Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 363

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(SPORTS--BOXING.) VAN VECHTEN, CARL. Two photographs of Joe Louis rowing a boat while at training camp. Silver prints, with Van Vechten's blind-stamps and stamps on the reverse. Typical of Van Vechten's work, these are not standard sizes. One, showing Louis leaning over the oars is 8 x 9 3/4 inches (a small diagonal crease to the lower right corner), the other 7 x 9 inches, with a small shiny, transparent smudge above Van Vechten's blind-stamp at the lower right corner. Np, circa late 1930s