WONDERFUL SIGNED PHOTO OF ALDOUS HUXLEY IN LOS ANGELES HUXLEY (Aldous, 1894-1963, Novelist, Author of ‘Brave New World’1475)

Superb Silver Gelatin Print by George Platt LYNES boldly signed and inscribed “For Elise Murrell from a distant friend...” showing the author, head and shoulders, looking out of the bottom half of a window, 9½” X 7½”, no place but Los Angeles, no date but

George Platt LYNES (1907-1955, American Fashion and Commercial Photographer who worked in the 1930s and 40s) produced photographs featuring many gay artists and writers from the 1940s that were acquired by the Kinsey Institute. Lynes was in Los Angeles from 1946-1948, living both before and after in New York City. He first visited to vacation and meet some friends he knew there including novelists Katherine Anne Porter and Christopher Isherwood, and labor organizer Bernardine Szold Fritz. He also did portraits of the writers Thomas Mann and Aldous Huxley. After meeting these and others within a few weeks of his first visit, he decide to relocate from New York to explore the arts scene in LA.There is an example of this photograph at The Met Fifth Avenue.
In 1937, Huxley moved to Hollywood with his wife Maria, son Matthew, and friend Gerald Heard. Cyril Connolly wrote, of the two intellectuals (Huxley and Heard) in the late 1930s, "all European avenues had been exhausted in the search for a way forward – politics, art, science – pitching them both toward the US in 1937." Huxley lived in the U.S., mainly southern California, until his death, and for a time in Taos, New Mexico, where he wrote Ends and Means (1937).

Item Date:  1946

Stock No:  42688      £1975

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