Prints & Photographs Part I

Prints & Photographs Part I

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The Jill and Marshall Rose Collection

Tina Modotti

Easter Lily and Bud

Live auction begins on:

April 14, 04:00 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Bid

20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Jill and Marshall Rose Collection

Tina Modotti

1896 - 1942


Easter Lily and Bud

platinum-palladium print, tipped to a mount, signed in pencil on the mount, framed, a Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition label on the reverse

image: 4 ⅝ by 3 in. (11.7 by 7.6 cm.)

Executed circa 1925.

Collection of Ella and Bertram Wolfe

Sotheby's New York, 14 April 1992, Sale 6286, Lot 217

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tina Modotti: Photographs, September 1995 - November 1995 and traveling thereafter to:

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, December 1995 - 1996

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, March - June 1996

Variant cropping:

Carleton Beals, "Tina Modotti," Creative Art: A Magazine of Fine & Applied Art, February 1929, vol. 4, no. 2

Mildred Constantine, Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life, San Francisco 1993, p. 116 

Margaret Hooks, Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary, London 1993, unpaginated

Sarah M. Lowe, Tina Modotti: Photographs, New York 1998, p. 20

Tina Modotti: Una nueva mirada 1929, Morelos 2000, p. 104

Margaret Hooks, Tina Modotti 55, New York 2002, p. 39