Louis Faurer

signed, dated, and annotated 'N. Y. C.' in ink in the margin, signed, titled, dated, and copyrighted in pencil on the reverse, framed, the Buhl Collection label on the reverse, 1945, printed later (Tucker, Louis Faurer, p. 88)

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, 1994

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Show of Hands: Photographs and Sculpture from the Buhl Collection, January - March 2008

Seoul, South Korea, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Asian tour), March - May 2009, and 2 other Asian venues through 2011 (see Appendix 1)

This photograph, on double-weight semi-glossy Agfa paper, is in generally excellent condition. The tips of the margin corners are bumped and creased. There is a translucent light-yellow deposit of indeterminate nature in the lower margin. On the reverse of the print, there are three rust-colored deposits. '1,500' is written in pencil in an unidentified hand.
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