Oct 27, 2005 - Sale 2054

Sale 2054 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 3,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
CHUNG LING SOO (William Ellsworth ROBINSON 1861-1918). Fine full-length photographic portrait of Chung Ling Soo, holding a deck of cards and dressed uncharacteristically in formal Western garb, standard format on a mount marked The Gem of New York; Signed on the verso, "WB Robinson Chung Ling Soo." New York, before 1900.
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Unusual portrait of Robinson in formal Western attire and sporting a moustache. Most certainly taken before he adopted the role of Chung Ling Soo with his shaved head and face.