Alvin Langdon Coburn
1916
Portrait of Michio Ito in his Hawk costume designed by Dulac

Gelatin silver print
29 x 21 cm (or greater)
 
Sotheby's - London
Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern, 1 July 2024, Lot: 306
 
WB Yeats, ‘At the Hawk’s Well’, corrected typescript, and related material on his collaborations with Edmund Dulac
 
Michio Itō portrayed as The Hawk (or the Guardian of the Well) in W. B. Yeats's 1916 verse play At the Hawk's Well. Alvin Langdon Coburn during the production's development. The play was a pioneering modernist experiment heavily inspired by traditional Japanese Noh theater, featuring choreography and performance by Itō alongside a script written by the Irish poet W. B. Yeats and assisted by Ezra Pound.
 
LL/132656