Lot 49
  • 49

Micha Bar-Am

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Micha Bar-Am
  • Father Neophitus, Santa Katerina Monastery, Sinai
  • signed Micha Bar-Am and again in Hebrew, titled and dated 1967 (on the reverse)
  • gelatin silver print
  • 7 by 9 3/8 in.
  • 17.8 by 23.8 cm
  • Executed in 1967.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist, 2011

Exhibited

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; Shreveport, The Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College of Louisiana; Cheekwood, Tennessee Fine Arts Center; Midland, Texas, Museum of the Southwest, The Sonia and Kaye Marvins Portrait Collection, 1986-1988, p. 10, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue

Literature

Micha Bar-Am, Israel, A Photobiography, 1998, p. 93, illustrated

Condition

The work has several indentations throughout when viewed in raking light. The two bottom corners are creased and all four corners have minor losses to the print. Hand prints are discernible in raking light.
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Catalogue Note

Per the artist, only a few copies of the image have been printed with these dimensions.