Original Photographic Portrait of Emperor Haile Selassie, Inscribed to Bob MacNeal
- [N.d., ca 1970s]
[N.d., ca 1970s]. Original large-format color print in presentation mat with title card affixed to mat below image. View size 49cm x 38cm (ca 19" x 15"); overall dimensions 60cm x 51cm. Title card inscribed in black ink: "For Bob MacNeal, a fellow photographer, with best wishes / Arnold Newman," undated. Mat lightly soiled, with a few small chips and abrasions to extremities; image clean and unfaded, Near Fine. ca
NOTE: the mat appears permanently fixed to the photograph, as presented by the photographer; we have not attempted to examine the print outside the mat. Impressive large-format portrait by Newman, here inscribed to one "Bob MacNeal," identified as a "fellow photographer," though we can find no photographers of the period who used this spelling. Possibly a misspelling of Bob MacNeil (still active), the prominent Canadian fashion photographer; possibly a misspelling of Bob McNeill (d.2007), the prominent African-American documentary photographer; or possibly the correct spelling of an acquaintance of no notable prominence at all. Undated, but ca. early 1970s, a superlative image of the Ethiopian Emperor, boldly inscribed and signed by Newman below image.
NOTE: the mat appears permanently fixed to the photograph, as presented by the photographer; we have not attempted to examine the print outside the mat. Impressive large-format portrait by Newman, here inscribed to one "Bob MacNeal," identified as a "fellow photographer," though we can find no photographers of the period who used this spelling. Possibly a misspelling of Bob MacNeil (still active), the prominent Canadian fashion photographer; possibly a misspelling of Bob McNeill (d.2007), the prominent African-American documentary photographer; or possibly the correct spelling of an acquaintance of no notable prominence at all. Undated, but ca. early 1970s, a superlative image of the Ethiopian Emperor, boldly inscribed and signed by Newman below image.