Lot 180
  • 180

Sally Mann

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Sally Mann
  • 'BLACK EYE'
  • gelatin silver print
large-format, signed, titled, dated, editioned '7/35,' and annotated in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Houk/Friedman Gallery, New York, label on the reverse, 1991, printed in 1995

Condition

This print is in generally excellent condition. A few deposits of original retouching -- in the sitter's forehead and in the upper right portion of the image -- are visible in raking light. There are a few impressions in the upper margin corners. On the reverse, Mann has noted that she has made prints of this image in the following formats: 20 by 24 in., 25 prints 16 by 20 in., 25 prints 8 by 10 in., 25 prints. The Houk/Friedman Gallery label indicates that this print was made in 1995.
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