a particularly good impression on cream laid paper; this is one of Orlik's most striking portraits from his time in Japan.
dedicated to Orlik's friend S K Baschwitz, the dedication dated 7.VII.28.
apart from a pale smudge in the left of the lower margin, well away from the plate, in excellent condition

Siegfried Kurt Baschwitz (1886 - 1968) was a Berlin born journalist who escaped the Nazis in 1931, going to Amsterdam, where he died