Yousuf Karsh (Canadian, 1908-2002). Fifteen Portraits, 1941-1972. Oversized gelatin silver prints, printed 1983. 23-3/4 ...

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Yousuf Karsh (Canadian, 1908-2002)
Fifteen Portraits, 1941-1972
Oversized gelatin silver prints, printed 1983
23-3/4 x 20 inches (60.3 x 50.8 cm), or the reverse (images)
28 x 22 inches (sheets)
Each signed and editioned 01/100 in ink, mount recto. Atlas folio, beige linen clamshell box with blindstamped leather label. Published by Weston Gallery, Carmel.

PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's New York, Photographs, April 6, 2013, lot 85;
Private collection.

Titles include: Muhammad Ali, 1970; Pablo Casals, 1954; Marc Chagall, 1965; Winston Churchill, 1941; Jacques Cousteau, 1972; Albert Einstein, 1948; Robert Frost, 1958; Ernest Hemingway, 1957; Helen Keller, 1948; Joan Miró, 1967; Georgia O'Keeffe, 1956; Pablo Picasso, 1954; Albert Schweitzer, 1954; George Bernard Shaw, 1943; and Jean Sibelius, 1949.


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