Jun 02, 2022 - Sale 2607

Sale 2607 - Lot 89

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Keller, Helen (1880-1968)
Two Black-and-White Photo Portraits.

Including: Whitman's profile bust portrait of Keller taken from behind and used in conjunction with the publication of her autobiographical The Story of My Life, published in 1903, tacked to a black mount, with a blurb about the book on the verso, along with a stamp of the American Weekly reference library, the image itself touched up for publication in pencil, 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.

[And] Nickolas Muray's full-length portrait of Keller taken in New York circa 1925, posing with an open book, a plaster round relief profile of Homer on the wall behind her, and Keller's Great Dane Sieglinde stretched out at her feet, the dog looks up expectantly; with photographer's name blind embossed and rubber stamps on verso, 8 x 10 in.