Lot 175
  • 175

Larry Fink

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Larry Fink
  • 'Pat Sabatine's Eighth Birthday Party, PA.'
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed, and with title and date in pencil on the reverse, 1977, printed in 1983

Literature

Larry Fink, Social Graces (New York, 1984), cover

Condition

This gelatin silver print is in generally excellent condition. In raking light, a few deposits of original retouching are visible. On the reverse of the mount, the following is annotated in an unidentified hand in pencil: 'LF055.' The date notation, also on the reverse of the mount, indicates that this print was made in 1983: 'April 1977, Ptd. 1983.' There are some linear graphite remnants on the reverse of the mount.
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