Lot 32: BARON ADOLF DE MEYER

BARON ADOLF DE MEYER 1868-1949 'DOLORES' warm-toned, mounted, the number '115' in pencil on the mount, together with a backboard with typed credit, publication, and caption label with numerical notations in pencil and ink, circa 1919 ( De Meyer , pl. 33, presumably this print) 9 3/8 by 7 1/4 in. (23.8 by 18.9 cm.)

Robert Brandau, the editor of the volume De Meyer (New York, 1976)

Acquired by the Gilman Paper Company from the above, 1979

Sotheby's New York, Important Photographs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Including Works from The Gilman Paper Company Collection, 15 February 2006, Sale 8165, Lot 43

This photograph by De Meyer, Vogue's first full-time staff photographer, was reproduced in the May 1, 1919, issue with the following caption: 'Eager-eyed from under her bridal veil, she gazes in the fortune-telling crystal, hoping to see her dreams there in the clear yet mystery-filled glass. Fastening the draping veil of rose point lace are jeweled wings of platinum set solidly with diamonds and only Cartier could have devised the flexible setting.'