Nov 07, 2017 - Sale 2461

Sale 2461 - Lot 219

Price Realized: $ 422
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
VAN HEUSEN, JIMMY. Two Photographs Signed and Inscribed, to Cazenovia College President Rhea Eckel, each half-length seated portraits by Bachrach, showing him holding a sheet of music and a cigarette. The first, "To Rhea Eckel, with unbounded admiration for a remarkable person," a large color photograph. Inscribed on the mat below the image. 11x14 inches (image), 14x16 1/2 inches overall; minor cockling to edges of image. The second, "To Rhea-- / the nicest / House-guest / of all--with much / affection." Inscribed in the image, lower left. 10x8 inches; unobtrusive cracking to emulsion overall, remnants of prior mounting at upper edge verso, studio ink stamps in lower right margin and verso. Cazenovia, 21 October 1956; Np, nd

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Rhea Doyle Eckel Clark (1903-1985) was president of Cazenovia College between 1957 and 1971.
From the Jimmy Van Heusen Collection.