Oct 25, 2016 - Sale 2426

Sale 2426 - Lot 166

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
GEORGE PLATT LYNES (1907-1955)
Male nude with arms raised. Silver print, the image measuring 9x7 1/2 inches (22.9x19.1 cm.). Circa 1950

Additional Details

From Glenway Wescott; to John Stevenson, in 1978-79.

Lynes' lifelong relationship with Wescott is the subject of When We Were Three, Travel Albums of George Platt Lynes, Monroe Wheeler and Glenway Westcott 1925-1935 (Pohorilenko and Crump, Arena Editions, 1998) and many other books.