Aaron Siskind

dated and annotated '(courtesy Egan Gallery, N. Y. C.)' by the photographer in ink, annotated 'top' by him and numbered '14C' and '9' (circled) in an unidentified hand in pencil and with the photographer's 'Photograph by Aaron Siskind' credit stamp on the reverse, matted, 1949, printed no later than 1954

Private Collection, New York

By descent to the present owners

This early print, on double-weight paper with a semi-glossy surface, is in generally excellent condition. There is tiny emulsion loss at the upper corners and at the lower left corner. 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 198).
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