Feb 23, 2023 - Sale 2627

Sale 2627 - Lot 118

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
GEORGE PLATT LYNES (1907-1955)
Henri Wessels. Silver print, the image measuring 9x7 inches (22.9x17.8 cm.), with Lynes' 245 East 52 Street stamp and the subject's name, the date, and the notation "Dup" in ink in Glenway Wescott's hand, on verso. 1933

Provenance: Glenway Wescott; to Robert Miller Gallery, New York; to a Private Collection, Switzerland

Henri Wessels was a singer and dancer who performed at the Cotton Club in the 1920s and 30s. He lived in Paris for three years in the early 1930s where he performed with the legendary Mistinguett.