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Albert Schweitzer, 1954.
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[SCHWEITZER, Albert (1875-1965)] - Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002)
Albert Schweitzer, 1954.
Image: c.240 x 190mm; integral mount: 335 x 258mm. Gelatin silver print photograph signed by Karsh (‘Y Karsh’). Cut autograph presentation inscription [to A.C. Robbins] signed by Schweitzer (‘Thank you once more for everything. Yours most sincerely, Albert Schweitzer’) and typed inscription (‘I want to tell you personally how deeply touched I am by your sympathy and help for my hospital and myself: I count you as one of my friends) pasted onto mount. Photographer’s credit stamp on verso: ‘No. P.o.6v./Karsh, Ottawa’. Provenance: by descent.
The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Albert Schweitzer presents three photographs, including an important edition signed by Yousuf Karsh, in recognition of support for the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer. Describing his 1954 sitting with Schweitzer, the photographer Yousuf Karsh wrote: ‘‘Which,’ I asked this humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize winner, ‘is the greatest of the Ten Commandments?’ ‘Christ gave only one commandment,’ replied Schweitzer, ‘and that was love’’.
[with:] Portrait photograph of Schweitzer, c.250 x 175mm, with a cut autograph inscription signed (‘Albert Schweitzer’), in French, thanking A.C. Robbins for his sympathy for his hospital and himself and a typed translation into English pasted down. Glazed.
[and:] Photograph of Schweitzer and ?Helene Bresslau Schweitzer, c.195 x 245mm. Glazed.
Albert Schweitzer, 1954.
Image: c.240 x 190mm; integral mount: 335 x 258mm. Gelatin silver print photograph signed by Karsh (‘Y Karsh’). Cut autograph presentation inscription [to A.C. Robbins] signed by Schweitzer (‘Thank you once more for everything. Yours most sincerely, Albert Schweitzer’) and typed inscription (‘I want to tell you personally how deeply touched I am by your sympathy and help for my hospital and myself: I count you as one of my friends) pasted onto mount. Photographer’s credit stamp on verso: ‘No. P.o.6v./Karsh, Ottawa’. Provenance: by descent.
The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Albert Schweitzer presents three photographs, including an important edition signed by Yousuf Karsh, in recognition of support for the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer. Describing his 1954 sitting with Schweitzer, the photographer Yousuf Karsh wrote: ‘‘Which,’ I asked this humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize winner, ‘is the greatest of the Ten Commandments?’ ‘Christ gave only one commandment,’ replied Schweitzer, ‘and that was love’’.
[with:] Portrait photograph of Schweitzer, c.250 x 175mm, with a cut autograph inscription signed (‘Albert Schweitzer’), in French, thanking A.C. Robbins for his sympathy for his hospital and himself and a typed translation into English pasted down. Glazed.
[and:] Photograph of Schweitzer and ?Helene Bresslau Schweitzer, c.195 x 245mm. Glazed.
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