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ItemID: #120041
Cost: $26,000.00

Photograph inscribed

Albert Einstein

WONDERFUL PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF EINSTEIN INSCRIBED BY HIM TO HIS PERSONAL PHYSICIAN

(EINSTEIN, Albert) TYCKO, Aaron. Photograph inscribed. No place, Tycko, circa 1934. Silver gelatin photograph, measuring 7-1/2 by 9-1/4 inches, signed by the photographer and signed and inscribed by Einstein on the mount; handsomely framed, entire piece measures 15 by 17 inches. $26,000.

Wonderful photographic portrait of Einstein, inscribed and signed by him on the mount to his New York personal physician, "Herr Dr. Harry Stein mein Hilfreicher, Albert Einstein 1934."

Additionally signed by photographer Aaron Tycko on the mount. Tycko was the resident photographer at the famed Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where this picture was taken in Einstein's 1932-33 tour of the United States. It is inscribed to Dr. Harry Stein, an orthopedic surgeon in New York City who served as the Einsteins' personal physician for many years; the inscription is dated shortly after Einstein returned to the United States and began working at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey.

Fine condition.

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