J. Paul Getty Signed Photograph.

GETTY, J. Paul.

Item Number: 96011

Original black and white photograph of J. Paul Getty in front of his Sutton Place mansion in Surrey. Signed by Getty in the upper left corner of the photograph, “J P Getty.” Double matted and framed. In fine condition. The photograph measures 6 inches by 4.25 inches. The entire piece measures 12.75 inches by 11.5 inches.

Known largely for his fabled wealth, British American petrol-industrialist J. Paul Getty was highly educated, competent in six languages, a world traveler, and a committed collector of art. He founded Getty Oil Company and in, 1957, Fortune magazine named him the richest living American. An avid collector of art and antiquities, he established the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1974, a re-creation of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum on his property in Malibu, California.