Details
CURIE, MARIE (1867-1934). Photograph signed ("M. Curie"), by Harris & Ewing, Washington (imprint on margin), n.d. [circa 1921]. 275 x 355 mm. (10¾ x 14 in.) including mount. A group portrait, signed on the lower margin.
"The discoverer of radium, Nobel Prize winner in both physics and chemistry, one of the most admired women of her time. She is seen here with President Warren G. Harding; the occasion is the presentation of a gift from American women of one gram of radium for the Curie Institute" --W.M.
"The discoverer of radium, Nobel Prize winner in both physics and chemistry, one of the most admired women of her time. She is seen here with President Warren G. Harding; the occasion is the presentation of a gift from American women of one gram of radium for the Curie Institute" --W.M.
Provenance
The Cornelius Greenway Collection (sale, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 4 May 1971, lot 238).