Lot 289
  • 289

Donna Ferrato

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Donna Ferrato
  • FROM 'LIVING WITH THE ENEMY' (INJURED WOMAN ON THE STREET, MCKEESPORT, PA)
  • Gelatin silver print
signed and annotated in green pencil on the reverse, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, 1983, printed in 1995

Provenance

The photographer, 1995

Exhibited

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

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

Literature

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 184 and 216 (this print)

Condition

This photograph is in generally excellent condition. Upon close examination, a small deposit of original retouching is visible in the lower right quadrant. The margin corners are bumped, and the print is very slightly wavy.
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