KELLER, HELEN (1880-1968). Photograph inscribed and signed ("Helen Keller"), by NICHOLAS MURAY, New York (blind-embossed on lower-left), 1924 (signed and dated by photographer on mount). 242 x 192 mm. (9½ x 7 9/16 in.) image size, 375 x 290 mm. (14¾ x 11 3/8 in.) including mount, mount corners worn with a few chips and cracks, minor wear to edges of image. A large, three-quarter-length seated portrait of Keller with her dog, inscribed on the lower mount: "To dear Helen Thompson with love and greetings from Helen Keller and Sieglinde May 1924."

Details

KELLER, HELEN (1880-1968). Photograph inscribed and signed ("Helen Keller"), by NICHOLAS MURAY, New York (blind-embossed on lower-left), 1924 (signed and dated by photographer on mount). 242 x 192 mm. (9½ x 7 9/16 in.) image size, 375 x 290 mm. (14¾ x 11 3/8 in.) including mount, mount corners worn with a few chips and cracks, minor wear to edges of image. A large, three-quarter-length seated portrait of Keller with her dog, inscribed on the lower mount: "To dear Helen Thompson with love and greetings from Helen Keller and Sieglinde May 1924."

"This remarkable photograph by Nickolas Muray allows us to feel along with Helen the pulsations in the dog's neck, and enter for a moment her world"--W.M.

Provenance

The Cornelius Greenway Collection (sale, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 4 May 1971, lot 36).

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