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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BRUCE BELLAS (BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES) (1909-1974)
Photocopied master list of his models, with 39 color slides of his work. Group of 39 color slides of male nudes, most of them ink-stamped "Bruce Los Angeles" and his inventory numbers, many of them also bearing manuscript titles such as "Cavalry Rescue"; a few creased or worn. Also a 106-page photocopy made in 1999 of a dot-matrix master listing of models used by Bruce of Los Angeles from 1948 to 1973: names, addresses, ages, year shot, other biographical information, and a categorized count of poses. Bellas was a noted photographer and the publisher of the beefcake magazine The Male Figure.
With 4 unrelated publications: Noel I. Garde, "The Homosexual in Literature: A Chronological Bibliography, circa 700 B.C. - 1958." New York: Village Press, 1959.
Unbound portfolio catalogue of the exhibition "Significant Losses: Artists Who Have Died from AIDS." College Park, MD, 1994.
Kenn Duncan, "Nudes." With a duplicate; in original slipcases. New York: Dance Magazine, 1970.
Provenance: all acquired by the consignor from the estate of District of Columbia councilman Jim Graham (1945-2017).
