Photograph by Julius Shulman

This horizontal image shows Rand at her writing desk. This is the desk at which she wrote all four of her novels. Her husband, Frank O’Connor, gave it to her as a Christmas gift in 1931, just two years after they had married. On the couch at the left are Oscar and Oswald, the two stuffed lion cubs that Rand and O’Connor fondly treated as members of the family. One guesses that the pile of pages in the foreground on her desk contains handwritten or typed manuscript pages of Atlas Shrugged, which she had been working on since 1946.

This photographic print on canvas is 67.5″ wide and 52″ 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.