Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Gelatin silver print, pencil signed and titled to lower margin, mounted as issued, inscribed to the verso, unframed.
Image size 9 3/4 x 12 1/8 in.; Mat dimensions 16 x 20 in.
Arnold Genthe was a pioneering German-American photographer renowned for his evocative portraits and candid street photography, particularly his documentation of San Francisco’s Chinatown before the 1906 earthquake. He became a celebrated society portraitist, capturing figures such as Greta Garbo and Theodore Roosevelt with a distinctive, naturalistic style.
Good estate condition.