Lot 66
  • 66

Steve McCurry

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Steve McCurry
  • 'Sharbat Gula, Afghan Girl', Pakistan, 1984
  • Chromogenic print
  • Image 53.8 x 35.8 cm (21 x 14 in.);sheet 60.6 x 49 cm (24 x 19¼ in.)
Chromogenic print, printed 2011. Signed in black ink and with the photographer's studio label on the reverse. With a gallery label bearing information about the work in facsimile affixed to the back of the frame. Matted and framed.

Provenance

Chris Beetles Fine Photographs, London
Private collection, UK

Literature

National Geographic Magazine, vol. 167, n°6, juin 1985, ill. couverture ;
Steve McCurry, South Southeast, London, Phaidon, 2000, ill. p. 137 ;
Steve McCurry, Regards d'Orient, Paris, Phaidon, 2006, ill. p. 28 ;
Steve McCurry, 100 photos de Steve McCurry pour la liberté de la presse, Paris, Reporters sans frontières, 2012, ill. p. 13.
Steve McCurry, Portraits, Paris, Phaidon, 2013, ill. cover.

Condition

This print is in excellent condition; as it was printed in 2011, the colours and tones are rich and bright.
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