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Rare Signed Photograph of John Paul Getty
GETTY, John Paul (1892-1976). American entrepreneur and billionaire oil magnate. He made his first million dollars by buying and selling oil leases for his father’s company in Tulsa. Getty acquired numerous oil-related corporations merging them into the Getty Oil Company in 1967. Major art collector most of which is housed at the Getty Museum in Malibu, California. Photograph, 4”x4”, B&W, informal candid pose sitting in a heavily carved chair. Signed in old age using a felt tip pen. John Paul Getty can be considered quite rare in signed photographs............ $495.00
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