Robert Doisneau.
Portrait of Blaise Cendrars. No place or date [ca. 1950].
Silver print (23,9 x17,9 cm), stamped on the reverse.
A delightful full-length portrait of Blaise Cendrars, taken from a low angle, drinking next to an impressive stack of books.
In the 1940s, Robert Doisneau was the author of many portraits of Blaise Cendrars.
Together they published La Banlieue de Paris, a famous illustrated book published in Lausanne by the Guilde du Livre in 1949.
A copy of Henry Miller's book with a note from him in purple ink:
Blaise Cendrars / Please return to / Henry Miller / Big Sur, California.
Handwritten caption on a printed label of the New York publisher New Directions, on the back, with notes for reproduction.
![Robert Doisneau. Portrait of Blaise Cendrars. No place or date [ca. 1950].
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