EINSTEIN (ALBERT) Photograph signed and inscribed to the photographer ('To Mr Tycko/ Albert Einstein. 1932'), showing Einstein head-and-shoulders facing up to his right, the image signed in black ink by the photographer ('Tycko LA'), and on the original studio mount marked 'Study by Tycko/ The Ambassador', platinum print, very slight oxidization at the edges but overall in fine bright and attractive condition, photograph 238 x 188mm., overall 380 x 300mm., 1932 Footnotes: A FAMOUS IMAGE, INSCRIBED BY EINSTEIN TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Aaron Tycko had his studio at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, and Einstein greatly admired the photographs taken of him at this sitting, telling Tycko on 2 March 1932 that he finds in them 'a truly artistic treatment of the light effect through which photography approximates the art of painting': 'Man findet auf ihnen eine wahrhaft kuenstlerische Behandlung der Lichteffekte, durch welche die Photographie der Malerei nahezukommen vermag' (see the letter sold at Bonhams, New York, 5 December 2018, lot 466). The present owner's step-father was given this photograph by Tycko himself, a friend and fellow admirer of Einstein, in exchange for a painting. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com