Photograph by Julius Shulman

In this vertical image, Rand and O’Connor are standing in the driveway with their neighbor Janet Gaynor, an actress who in 1929 won the first Oscar ever awarded for best actress and who played the lead in A Star Is Born (1937) before retiring from the screen. Gaynor’s husband (not pictured) was Adrian Greenburg, known professionally as Adrian, a former Hollywood costume designer (The Wizard of Oz) who also owned a design boutique. (Upon signing a lucrative contract in 1945, Rand wrote in a private letter: “I went out and bought five dresses by Adrian and the complete works of Aristotle.”) Rand had an older connection with Adrian as well: the designer had worked for Cecil B. DeMille on the King of Kings film, his costuming including all of the film’s extras, of whom Rand was one.

This photographic print on canvas is 52″ wide and 67.5″ high. (Easel not included.)

FMV: $2,500

This lot will be familiar to those who attended OCON 2023 in Miami, as it was one of many images prominently displayed on easels in an exhibit visited by hundreds of attendees. Their large size allowed them to dominate the space—the vertical canvases are as tall as an average person, and they would all be especially suitable for two-story walls in a modern house. The photographer was Julius Shulman, a prominent architectural photographer who immortalized structures designed by prominent architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra. His collections are now housed in the Getty Institute in Southern California.