Nov 29, 2012 - Sale 2296

Sale 2296 - Lot 115

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
ROBESON, PAUL; AND ETHEL WATERS. Group Photograph Signed, by both, full-length portrait, showing them standing together with Canada Lee and Josh White, who is holding a guitar and singing. Additionally signed by White and Lee. Inscribed in the image, vertically, below the relevant portrait, Robeson's with inscription ("All best"). 7x9 inches; abrasion along bottom edge in negative; matted and framed. Np, [1944]

Additional Details

This image was taken during the 1944 performance of Langston Hughes's radio play, The Man Who Went to War, for BBC Home Service.
with--Josh White. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "To a very swell guy," half-length sitting portrait by Arnold Eagle, showing him seated with his guitar. Inscribed in the image. 9x7 inches. Np, [1944].