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Barbara Hutton, American, 1912-1979, a group of seven photograph albums, 1920's-40s, comprising:...
View MoreBarbara Hutton, American, 1912-1979, a group of seven photograph albums, 1920's-40s, comprising:...
Price Realised: £3,149
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Price realised is hammer price plus fees (31.2% Buyers Premium inclusive of VAT).
Lot 191
Description
Barbara Hutton, American, 1912-1979, a group of seven photograph albums, 1920's-40s, comprising: three albums with photographs of her childhood and various lovers and husbands, including Cary Grant and Bobby Sweeney, prints for Vogue by Hoyningen-Heune and Horst P. Horst, montages of her various press photographs, and images by John Miehle, Alvin Langdon Coburn and signed examples by Dorothy Wilding; three white leather bound volumes encompassing 1935-38, the 1935 volume includes images of Hutton with her second husband, Count Court Reventlow, travelling in Egypt, visiting the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and lounging in cabanas in Venice in 1937; the 1937-38 volume inscribed 'India' comprises travel photographs of Switzerland, Northern Italy and India; the 1938 book, India Volume II, includes numerous photographs of a safari trip with an entourage of elephants and fellow travellers; an additional black album entitled 'His Highness The Maharaja of Jaipur's Camp - February 1938' includes further India travel photographs (7)
Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, 3 May 1999, lot 122, $9,200.
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