Lot 64
  • 64

Emmet Gowin

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Emmet Gowin
  • 'NANCY, DANVILLE, VIRGINIA'
  • Gelatin silver print
signed, titled, dated, and with printing notations in ink and pencil on the reverse, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, 1969

Provenance

Pace/MacGill 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)

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)

Literature

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection  (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 90 and 220 (this print)

Emmet Gowin: Photographs
(Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1990), p. 38

Emmet Gowin: Photographs
(Göttingen, Germany, and New York, 2009), pl. 24

Condition

This print is in generally excellent condition. On the reverse of the print are the following printing notations in pencil: 'soft', '2' (circled), '7@16', and '+3ft.'
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