Details
[-- --]. FORD, HENRY (1863-1947). Photograph signed ("Henry Ford"), n.p., n.d. [circa 1921]. 240 x 175 mm. (9 3/8 x 7 in.) including margins, lower margin beneath signature worn (slightly affecting signature); matted. A half-length, formal portrait of the inventor of the Model T (1913), smiling slightly into the camera, signed on the lower margin.
"Ford employed the assembly-line method of production. He has been called the most important man in the history of the American automobile industry"--W.M.
"Ford employed the assembly-line method of production. He has been called the most important man in the history of the American automobile industry"--W.M.
Provenance
The Cornelius Greenway Collection (sale, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 4 May 1971, lot 9).