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This lot comprises 34 vintage sheet-fed photogravure portraits by the inimitable photographer Yousuf Karsh. Notable subjects in this group include Norman Rockwell, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Igor Stravinksy, Tennessee Williams, John Steinbeck, and Georgia O'Keefe. Numerous other 20th century luminaries are represented, with a number of duplicate images. These handsome portfolio plates date from about the 1960s and measure approx. 9"x12" each. Yousuf Karsh, CC (1908-2002) was an Armenian–Canadian portrait photographer. He has been called one of the great portrait photographers of the 20th century by Time magazine and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the latter noting the "distinct style in his theatrical lighting."