Lot 116
  • 116

Antanas Sutkus

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Antanas Sutkus
  • 'A Pioneer', 1965
  • Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso
  • Gelatin silver print
  • Image and paper: 27.9 x 31.8 cm
Vintage silver print. Signed, titled and dated in pencil on the reverse.

Provenance

A.B. Levy's Auction, FL

Literature

Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, de Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 2 February - 27 January 2008 (exhibition catalog), pl. 66; 
Antanas Sutkus, Fotografijos/Photographs 1959–1999, Vilnius 2000, p. 45;
Antanas Sutkus, Lietuvos Žmonės, People of Lithuania, ed. Kaunas Photography Gallery and the Antanas Sutkus Archive, Vilnius 2015, p. 113; 
Margarita Matulyte, Antanas Sutkus: Retrospective, Vilinus, 2009, ill. on front cover and p. 121.

Condition

This print is in overall good to very good condition. With retouching marks throughout the print, and a crease in the lower right quadrant (approx. 3 cm), only visible in raking light. With slightly softened corners and bumps to the edges, and a small loss of paper along the right edge of the sheet. There is residue of tape adhered to the reverse of the print along the edges.
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