ORIGINAL 1951 YOUSUF KARSH (1908-2002) 'FORD OF CANADA' BARBARA ANN SCOTT, CANADIAN GOLD MEDAL FIGURE SKATER AND THE REINTRODUCED WILLY'S AERO CAR PORTRAIT GELATIN SILVER PHOTOGRAPH

This is a wonderful original. This is one of those photographs I have no problem owning until someone decides to purchase it.  In fact, I might actually regret selling it but that is how it goes in this business.  This is an incredible original portrait by one of the most important Portrait photographers of the 20th Century, Yousuf Karsh.  For those not familiar with Karsh I have included his biography below.  This was acquired from the estate of Seymour Stein, the founder of Sire Records and vice president of Warner Brothers.  He was an avid collector of advertising and photography.  This photograph by Karsh for Ford of Canada overlapped both of his collecting areas and it is believed that is why they were in his collection.  I showed the photo to Karsh's estate and they confirmed that this an original Karsh photo and was most likely one of the photos that Karsh created for the executives of Ford of Canada or one that was given to some of the workers when the Factory was closed down.  I have found this image in a few museums and also in Karsh's book of Industrial Images.  Other than that, none on the market anywhere I can find. It is quite unique in that it is both a portrait of Barbara Ann Scott, the Olympic Gold Medal figure skater from Canada above the Willy's Aero that is being reintroduced when this photograph was done.  Image measures 13 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches on complete original sheet measuring 14 x 11 1/8 inches.  Excellent condition.  Really an outstanding original Karsh photograph.  Perhaps one of his rarest images and a very historically significant and difficult photograph to find.  The photogrpah is unsigned but 100% guaranteed to be an original Karsh photograph.  Unframed.  Do your own research on this photograph.  Dont miss this chance.  If it doesnt sell I might just end up putting it in my personal collection and not relisting it. If you collect Karsh originals, check my store for the other example I am offering.  FREE SHIPPING ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES!

For those not familiar with the artist, his biography from artnet reads: "Yousuf Karsh was an Armenian-Canadian photographer known for his portraits of Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, and Albert Einstein. “Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can,” he once explained. “The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world.” Born Hovsep Karsh on December 23, 1908 in Mardin, Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey), he grew up amidst the turmoil of the Armenian Genocide. He and his family fled to Syria before emigrating to Canada as refugees in 1923. Growing up in Quebec, Karsh learned photography from his uncle who ran a portrait studio in the town of Sherbrooke. He later apprenticed under John H. Garo in Boston during the late 1920s. Opening his first studio in Ottawa in 1932, one of Karsh’s early patrons was Canada’s Prime Minister Mackenzie King. King helped the young artist set up appointments to photograph foreign dignitaries visiting the country. Over the decades the followed, he made many notable portraits, including those of Georgia O’Keeffe, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Nikita Khrushchev. Karsh retired in 1992, and later relocated to Boston, MA, where he died on July 13, 2002 at the age of 93. Today, his works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Royal Collection in London, among others."                

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