Description
From the estate of Colin Powell, Annie Liebovitz’s photograph of the George W. Bush Wartime Cabinet, dated December 3, 2001.
Stamped on verso: “Official Photograph / The White House / Washington D.C.” Code in black sharpie: “V2073-24 / 3Dec01 / DB.” Color photograph printed on foam board, black wood frame, hanging cable on verso. Full piece measures 21.5″ x 31.5″. Photograph features President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and the Director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet.
At a lunch with President Barack Obama in 2011, White House photographer Pete Souza asked General Powell if he remembered him from his time in the Reagan administration. Powell responded, “of course, I still have one of his jumbos hanging over my hot tub.”
Provenance: Potomac Auction House, Lot 1064, Estate of Colin Powell, 2022.
