The Metropolitan Museum of Art - W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham

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W. Somerset Maugham

George Platt Lynes (American, East Orange, New Jersey 1907–1955 New York)

Date:: 1930s–40s
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 33.7 x 27.8 cm. (13 1/4 x 10 15/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1970
Accession Number:: 1970.565.19
Rights and Reproduction:: © Estate of George Platt Lynes

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Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on mount, recto LR beneath print: "Somerset Maugham"; photographer's stamp on mount verso UC: "GEORGE PLATT LYNES// 640 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK"; inscribed in blue ink on mount, verso UC: "W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM [underlined]"; inscribed in pencil on mount verso UC: "II"
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Lincoln Kirstein
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