1927 Portrait of the Modernist Architect as a Young Man! Round Glasses, Linear Geometries, Original Frame italian ceramic 16 3/8" x 12 3/8"

16 3/8" x 12 3/8" on substantial weight paper

but it seems possible from that that it could be French

this figure--with wonderfully broad shoulders echoing the breadth of one lowered and one raised knee--appears almost buddha-like in his posture and poise

there appears some light creasing to the black paper at upper left corner

which shows some age

1927 Portrait of the Modernist Architect as a Young Man! Round Glasses, Linear Geometries, Original Frame italian ceramic 16 3/8" x 12 3/8"My photos of this are not great (avoiding glare while trying to capture his bright whites everything gets a bit washed out) but I love this photo specifically as a portrait which feels to me quite a complete and resolved one. I've taken to calling this young man Bucky after Buckminster Fuller; perhaps his round glasses are closer to Philip Johnson's, but I prefer the former, and the geometries of the fencing and tower behind him feel more like the