Photographs
Photographs
AARON SISKIND | SELECTED IMAGES (FROM HARLEM DOCUMENT)
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April 3, 05:57 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
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AARON SISKIND
1903-1991
SELECTED IMAGES (FROM HARLEM DOCUMENT)
a group of 8 gelatin silver prints, comprising Apollo Theater; Boys in Empty Tenement; Facade, Unoccupied Building; Girl with Clothes Form; Street Scene 4; Lafayette Theater 2; Lady and Lamp; Man by Bed, each signed in ink and with a LIGHT Gallery 'L' blindstamp in the margin, title, date, and numerical notations in pencil on the reverse, 1937-40, each printed 1981 (8) (Harlem, pp. 20, 31, 39, 43, 45, 47, 72)
Various sizes to 11¾ by 8½ in. (29.8 by 21.6 cm.) or the reverse
LIGHT Gallery, New York
Collection of Howard Greenberg, New York
Gift of the above, 2018
The Aaron Siskind photographs offered in Lots 128 and 129 come from the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Since 1936, when the Museum received an early gift of 160 Frances Benjamin Johnston photographs, the VMFA has strategically built a collection that reflects the full history of the medium, with artists such as Sally Mann, Louis Draper, Gordon Parks, Emmet Gowin, and André Kertész well-represented. This
dynamic collection grew significantly in January 2020 when it received an unprecedented gift of more than 8,000 Aaron Siskind photographs from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, New York. The photographs offered here represent duplicates within the VMFA collection and have been selected for deaccession to support the Siskind Prize, an annual fellowship grant for artists working in photography and photo-based art.