Tina Modotti (1896-1942)

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

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Description

Tina Modotti
Dolores del Rio, c. 1925

Vintage platinum print. Dry mounted and signed on the mount.Framed.

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner from Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, in 1994

Exhibited

Tina Modotti Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1995-1996.

Literature

Lowe, S.M. 1995 pl. 44.

Catalogue Note

Dolores del Rio was a Hollywood star of the silent era.

Edward Weston described Del Rio (in the Daybooks) in 1929 as 'still lovely and apparently unspoiled'.