May 16, 2024 - Sale 2669

Sale 2669 - Lot 140

Unsold
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950)
Self-portrait. Printed by Frederick H. Evans (1853-1943). Platinum print, the image measuring 5⅜x3⅛ inches (13.7x7.9 cm.), the primary mount 6⅛x3¾ inches (15.6x9.5 cm.), the secondary mount slightly larger, the tertiary mount 6¾x4¼ inches (17.1x10.8 cm.), with Evans' signature, title, and date, and the notation "Printed and mounted by Frederick Evans" in ink on verso. 1904

Reproduced: George Bernard Shaw, Ruskin's Politics, The Ruskin Centenary Council (Oxford University Press, 1921), frontispiece
Weston J. Naef, The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz: Fifty Pioneers of Modern Photography (The Metropolitan Museum of Art/The Viking Press, 1978), cat no. 444, p. 435