Yousuf Karsh
n.d.
Novelist Yosunari Kawabata

Gelatin silver print
19 5/8 x 16 in
 
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of the estate of Yousuf Karsh, Be-Hold (48 / 226)
 
Flush mounted, signed on mount, recto. The Japanese novelist Kawabata won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. He died by suicide in 1972. Here he poses with a sculptured figure in this great portrait.
 
LL/15365