Photograph by Julius Shulman

This horizontal image shows Rand and O’Connor on the small patio that opened off her first-floor study. Rand is standing and holding her cat and O’Connor is seated in a lounge chair. “It is a wonderful house,” she wrote to a friend, “all steel, glass and concrete—with a big garden, orchard and field of alfalfa…. I find that I love living in the country. It is so much more peaceful and free—and I write better.” It was in this setting that Rand researched for, planned, and began writing Atlas Shrugged. The writing of what turned out to be her final novel occurred (as for her three earlier novels) at the desk seen in the foreground of this photograph.

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.