Lot 55
  • 55

Alfred Stieglitz

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Alfred Stieglitz
  • JOHN MARIN
  • Gelatin silver print
warm-toned, flush-mounted, title in pencil on the reverse, 1921-22, probably printed in the 1920s or 1930s (Greenough 706)

Condition

This warm-toned print, on matte-surface paper, and flush-mounted to slick white board, is in generally very good condition. The edges are rubbed. On the reverse, there are rust-colored adhesive remains at the upper edge.
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Catalogue Note

This print was originally included in an album of Peter A. and Paul Juley's portraits of American artists.

Sarah Greenough, in Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs, locates five other prints of this image: the palladium print at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.; two platinum prints, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and two gelatin silver prints, one at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and one in an unknown location.