May 20, 2010 - Sale 2215

Sale 2215 - Lot 361

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
PLATT LYNES, GEORGE (1907-1955)
Nicholas Magallanes (as Orpheus) and Francisco Moncion (as Dark Angel) in George Balanchine's "Orpheus." Silver print, 7 3/4x9 1/2 inches (19.7x24.1 cm.). 1948
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From the Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York; to the present owner in 1979.
This photograph and the one following are from a private shoot Lincoln Kirstein arranged in 1948. Orpheus's lyre, which was designed by Isamu Noguchi, became the official symbol of the New York City ballet.