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Ruth Orkin

'The Card Players'

Lot Closed

October 5, 03:46 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Ruth Orkin

1921 - 1985

'The Card Players'


a sequence of 6 gelatin silver prints, each signed in ink in the margin, signed, titled, dated, copyrighted, and numbered sequentially in pencil and the second annotated 'Shot at Horatio & Washington Sts Greenwich Village / The only sequence in the "Family of Man" / Marilyn Hermon, aged 4', 1947' on the reverse, each framed, 1947, printed later (6)

images: each 6 ½ by 9 in. (16.5 by 22.9 cm.)

frames: each 11 ½ by 14 ½ in. (29.2 by 36.8 cm.)

Collection of Shirley Carter Burden

By descent through family to the present owners

Edward Steichen, The Family of Man (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1955), p. 40

Ruth Orkin (New York, 1995), pp. 14-15