Portrait photograph of Gore Vidal

New York, 1948. Variant of portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Seated on chair, leaning forward. 1 vols. 32.2 x 2 21.8 cm. (approx 12-5/8 x 8-1/2 inches). Fine. Verso docketed with holograph notations in ink, giving the name of the sitter, date of the photograph, and Van Vechten's reference to negative and print ("XV-FF-1"). Variant of portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Seated on chair, leaning forward. 1 vols. 32.2 x 2 21.8 cm. (approx 12-5/8 x 8-1/2 inches).