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Edward Steichen

Wind Fire, Thérèse Duncan on the Acropolis, Athens

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

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Edward Steichen

1879 - 1973


Wind Fire, Thérèse Duncan on the Acropolis, Athens

warm-toned gelatin silver print, credited, titled, dated and inscribed Please return to Edward Steichen, The Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53 NY 19 by Grace Mayer and with annotations in pencil on the reverse, framed

image: 10 by 8 in. (25.4 by 20.3 cm.)

Executed in 1921.

Collection of Joanna Steichen

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Private collection (acquired from the above in 2003)

Sotheby's New York, 5 April 2013, The Modern Image: Photographs from an Important American Collection, Sale 9027, lot 7

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Steichen the Photographer, New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1961, p. 43

Edward Steichen, A Life in Photography, Garden City 1963, p. 87

Steichen's Legacy: Photographs 1895-1973, New York, 2000, pl. 193

Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing, Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography, New York and London 2007, p. 121