Lot 54
  • 54

Harry Callahan 1912-1999

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Harry Callahan
  • 'highland park, michigan'
a suite of 3 photographs, all affixed to a single mount, signed by the photographer in pencil on the mount, titled, dated, and annotated 'EM 83 P' and 'S-41,' possibly by him, in pencil on the reverse, matted, framed, a Pace/Wildenstein/MacGill, New York, label on the reverse, 1941

Provenance

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Acquired by Nancy Richardson from the above, 1998

Literature

Other prints of these images:

Sarah Greenough, Harry Callahan (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1996, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 19

Britt Salvesen, Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 2006, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 77

Aperture Masters of Photography: Harry Callahan (New York, 1999), p. 49

Harry Callahan (The Museum of Modern Art, 1967), p. 53 (one image from the suite)

Condition

Each of these photographs is in generally excellent condition. There is chipping along the top edge of the bottom photograph. The photographs are mounted to a 2-ply white board. When examined with a black light, these prints do not appear to fluoresce.
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