Lot 262
  • 262

Harold Edgerton

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Harold Edgerton
  • CHAMPAGNE (POPPING THE CORK)
  • Gelatin silver print
signed, titled, and numbered '13.905' in ink on the reverse, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, circa 1939, printed later

Provenance

James Danziger Gallery, New York, 1995

Exhibited

New York, Guggenheim Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, June - September 2004, and 4 other international venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

Palm Beach Photographic Centre, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, March 2011

Middletown, Delaware, Warner Gallery at St. Andrew's School, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, October - November 2011

Literature

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 34 and 213 (this print)

Condition

This print, on resin-coated paper with a glossy surface, is in generally excellent condition.
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