Search Results: Authors starting with R from Keith de Lellis Gallery LLC

A RARE early album of primarily oval salt print photographs and a few albumen prints and engravings. 34 portraits of members officials of American Masonic organization. All identified by name and chapter affiliation. Most bear the credit imprint of New York photographer R. A. Lewis with a Chatham street address. Also includes two images with a Victor Piard credit. Bound with marble boards and leather spine. Several of the prints have spotting, but mostly good, rich prints. Edges of covers have wearing, spine is fragile as seen in images.* Price includes discount *

An original vintage gelatin silver print framed of Schiaparelli Aspirin Necklace photographed by Man Ray for Elsa Triolet, jewelry designer and companion to Louis Aragon, French surrealist poet and one of the leading voices in the French surrealist movement. Titled in pencil on verso. Image measures 3 1/4" x 2 1/2", frame measures 15" x 12". Excellent condition.
From 1928 to 1930, the Russian writer Elsa Triolet designed necklaces that her companion Louis Aragon, co-founder of the surrealist magazine Littérature, proposed to Elsa Schiaparelli. Man Ray photographed the most famous of these pieces, the aspirin necklace, composed of porcelain beads with a shape similar to that of aspirin tablets. (Read more at: https://www.schiaparelli.com/en/21-place-vendome/schiaparelli-and-the-artists/elsa-triolet/schiaparelli-aspirin-necklace/)
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Portrait of American activist poet, writer, and journalist John Beecher with copies of his Collected Poems 1924-1974 by Jim Redd. Vintage gelatin silver print on double weight semi-gloss paper. Very good condition. Minimal wear to corners, a few abrasions visible under specular light as seen in photos 4-7.

A 1906 softcover book in French describing the spirit materialisations of the Villa Carmen by Charles Richet. Dated 1906. 9 half tone photos of the spirit materialisations throughout book. 1 page has 6 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" photos remains 3 photos are 4" x 3". 93 pp. One small section of pages uncut. Spine shows wear and some paper loss at top of spine. A fragile book in acceptable condition.

A fine original 5" x 7" portrait of Dada icon Tristan Tzara (possibly autographed on verso by Tzara) c. 1949. Taken by Danish film maker Jorgen Roos. Credit on back likely in Roos's hand. Printed on double weight glossy paper, 5 1/4" x 7 1/4". Fine condition.

An original 5" x 7" 1949 portrait of poet Jean Cocteau by Danish filmmaker Jorgen Roos. Autographed by Cocteau on verso. Date and name of photographer on verso. Printed on double weight glossy paper, 5 1/4" x 7 1/4". Fine condition.

Original 1976 hardcover Portraits by Richard Avedon with Avedon's 1977 pencil inscription to Evelyne on right endpaper, the left endpaper to Evelyne from designer Jacques Bellini in ballpoint pen. The Avedon signature has some slight smudging. The bottom edge of the book has evidence of having been exposed to damp conditions and has a wavy appearance on some pages. Otherwise good condition. Plastic bookcover.