Feb 07, 2008 - Sale 2135

Sale 2135 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
NEWMAN, ARNOLD (1918-2006)
Leonard Bernstein, New York City. Silver print, 9 3/4x12 3/4 inches (24.8x32.4 cm.), with Newman's signature and dates, and insciptions by both Newman and Bernstein, in ink, on recto and his hand stamp on verso. 1968; printed 1985

Additional Details

From the collection of Robert Lantz who represented many famed artists in the theatre, publishing and film. Mr. Lantz was a friend of Mr. Bernstein and acted as his agent from the early 1970s until the composers death in 1990. Both Robert Lantz and Leonard Bernstein were personal friends of the photographer.
The inscriptions read, "For Robby, with much appreciation and friendship, Arnold 1985" and "For my Robbele, seventeen years later, and still with the old warmth for you - Love, Lenny April '85."
Sitters and Signatures: Autographed Portraits by Arnold Newman, 26.
Arnold Newman's Americans, 21.