Aaron Siskind

signed, dated, and annotated 'top' and '(courtesy Egan Gallery, N. Y. C.)' by the photographer in ink and numbered '3LAZ' and '10' (circled) in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse, matted, 1949, printed no later than 1954 (20th Century Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art, p. 63; Photographs, pl. 1)

Private Collection, New York

By descent to the present owners

Other prints of this image:

John Szarkowski, 20th Century Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art (The Museum of Modern Art, 1982, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 63

Aaron Siskind: Photographs (New York, 1959), pl. 1

This early photograph, on double-weight paper with a semi-glossy surface, is in generally excellent condition. The somewhat bumped corners have tiny creasing and emulsion loss. There is very slight age-darkening at the periphery on the reverse. The notations on the reverse of this photograph refer to the Egan Gallery, New York, where exhibitions of Siskind's photographs were held in the late 1940s and early 1950s (see Lots 197 and 199).
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