WEEGEE (1899–1968)
Groucho Marx in Bubble Bath, Hollywood, circa 1950

gelatin silver print
image: 4 ½ x 3 ⅝ in. (11.4 x 9.2 cm.)
sheet: 5 x 3 ⅞ in. (12.7 x 9.8 cm.)

Estate of Peter Martin, an editor, photographer and close friend to Weegee in the 1940s-1950s
Acquired from the above by the present owner

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Peter Martin, the photograph-magazine editor, photographer, friend to Weegee and original owner of this work had a studio in Greenwich Village that served as a meeting place for both famous and aspiring New York-based photographers of the 1940s and 1950s. Among those in Martin's circle of friends and colleagues were Philippe Halsman, W. Eugene Smith, Ruth Orkin and others. Martin was the editor of the magazine where this maquette appeared, Glamour Photography, and he purchased the photographs directly from Weegee.