Eliot Porter

dye-transfer print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's credit stamp, with title and number '57-204' in ink, on the reverse, framed, 1957, printed later (Eliot Porter, pl. 28)

This dye-transfer print is in generally excellent condition. The colors remain rich and saturated. The reverse of the mount is hinged with paper tape along the left and right edges to a mat. On the reverse of the frame there is a Daniel Wolf, New York, label. This photograph was acquired from Daniel Wolf, Inc., New York, in the early 1980s.
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