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Monday 17 June 2024 e Tuesday 18 June 2024, 03:00 PM • Milan

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William Claxton

(1927 - 2008)

Chet Baker, Jam Session, Pasadena, 1950s

Artist's Resale Right

Estimate

€ 300 - 400

Sold

€ 335

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Gelatin silver print, printed in 1987
cm 25,5 x 20 (cm 19,5 x 18,7 picture) | 10 x 7.8 in. (7.6 x 7.3 in. picture)
Photographer's credit stamp on the verso
William Claxton was an interpreter of jazz, and it is his proximity to one of the most brilliant trumpet players like Chet Baker that confirms it. In these two images he captures the musician in an intimate moment during a jam session, he does so with a simple but intense immediacy.