Lot 266
  • 266

Lisette Model

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

  • Lisette Model
  • LOWER EAST SIDE, NEW YORK
  • Gelatin silver print
numerical annotations in pencil and with the 'Estate of Lisette Model' copyright stamp on the reverse, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, 1942

Provenance

Eleanor Barefoot, New York, 1997

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. 183 and 233 (this print)

Ann Thomas, Lisette Model (Musée des Beaux Arts du Canada, 1990), p. 233

Condition

This print, on double-weight paper, is in generally excellent condition. When examined in raking light, some soft, minor handling creases are visible. This photograph does not appear to fluoresce. The following notations are in pencil on the reverse: '4' (circled), '4/1.6 over 6/20,' 'CLM 1083.103,' 'L170582,' '6000,' and 'LM.002.'
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