Photographs
Photographs
Auction Closed
April 5, 08:29 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private California Collection
CHARLES SHEELER
1883-1965
CHARTRES CATHEDRAL, BUTTRESSES FROM SOUTH PORCH
large-format, framed, 1929; accompanied by a 'Geo. F. Of, Inc., Picture Framer' label with 'Sheeler' in pencil (American Modernist, p. 175, tighter cropping) (2)
16½ by 12⅜ in. (41.9 by 31.4 cm.)
At the time of this writing, the present photograph is the largest print by Sheeler to appear at auction. A few prints in this large format exist in the Lane Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the great repository of Sheeler’s work. Most of these extant large-format prints are also from the Chartres Cathedral series.