Harry Callahan

'Barbara and Eleanor, Chicago'

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April 21, 02:05 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Prominent Corporation

Harry Callahan

1912 - 1999

'Barbara and Eleanor, Chicago'

gelatin silver print, flush-mounted to illustration board, signed, titled, and dated in ink and an El Mochuelo Gallery label, with typed credit, title, date, 'No. 5' and 'page 9,' on the reverse, framed, 1953, printed no later than 1964

image: 7 ⅝ by 9 ⅝ in. (19.4 by 24.4 cm.)

frame: 18 ½ by 19 ¼ in. (47 by 48.9 cm.)

The photographer to El Mochuelo Gallery, Santa Barbara

Light Gallery, New York

Private Collection

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 2000

Private Collection

Sotheby's New York, Important Photographs from a Private Collection, 27 April, 2004, Sale 7986, Lot 3, Solomon Fine Art, Monarch Beach, CA, as agent

Photographs: Harry Callahan (Santa Barbara: El Mochuelo Gallery, 1964), plate 5 (this print)

Harry Callahan (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1967), p. 27

Eleanor (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984), p. 49

Robert A. Sobieszek, Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections (New York, 1985), p. 337

Harry Callahan, Aperture Masters of Photography (New York, 1999), p. 2

Karen E. Haas, An Enduring Vision: Photographs from the Lane Collection (Boston, 2011), pl. 10