De Meyer, Baron. The Collection of Baron De Meyer.

Monday, October 20, 1980 at 2 p.m. Sotheby's New York. Auction catalog, 162 lots, profusely although not completely illustrated as some lots contained many photographs. [When De Meyer died in 1946, his adopted son Ernest gathered his personal belongings and stored them in a large steamer trunk that De Meyer had owned for most of his life and had accompanied him on his travels in Europe and Asia. The photographs in this sale were from that trunk, which had been stored for decades.] Fine, wraps.

Note: Born in Germany in 1868 as Adolph Meyer, he moved to London in 1897 and married Olga Alberta, reportedly the illegitimate daughter of the Prince of Wales (later Edward VI) and Blanche, Duchess of Caraciolla. He became a Photo-Secession member in 1909, had 25 photographs in the major photo exhibit at the Albright Art Gallery in 1910, and was published several times in the Photo-Secession’s magazine, Camera Work.  De Meyer was hired as Vogue’s first full-time photographer in 1914.  In 1921, he began work in Paris with Harper’s Bazaar and became widely admired for his fashion photography and celebrity portraiture until his soft focus style became outdated around 1930.  De Meyer died in Hollywood in 1946.