May 16, 2024 - Sale 2669

Sale 2669 - Lot 147

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
GEORGE HURRELL (1904-1992)
Johnny Weismuller. Silver print, the image measuring 12⅝x9¾ inches (32.1x24.8 cm.), flush mounted, with Hurrell's signature (twice) and a notation in the artist's hand in ink, his credit stamp with the date and the notation "vintage print," also in ink, and the sitter's name (twice) in pencil in an unknown hand, on mount verso. 1932

The notation reads as follows: "This photograph was taken in the portrait gallery where I worked at MGM [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer] studios in Culver City."