50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
Roy DeCarava
Dancers
Lot Closed
April 21, 02:14 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Roy DeCarava
1919 - 2009
Dancers
gelatin silver print, signed and annotated '©1981' in pencil in the margin, framed, 1956, printed later
image: 13 ⅛ by 8 ⅞ in. (33.3 by 22.5 cm.)
frame: 22 ¾ by 18 ¼ in. (57.8 by 46.4 cm.)
Please note that the provenance for this lot is as follows: Private Collection, acquired from the photographer; Christie’s New York, 3 October 2013, Sale 2732, Lot 198
Private Collection, acquired from the photographer
Christie’s New York, 3 October 2013, Sale 2732, Lot 198
Sherry Turner DeCarava and James Alinder, ed., Roy DeCarava: Photographs (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1981), pl. 32
Peter Galassi, Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1996), p. 211
Roy DeCarava, The Sound I Saw: Improvisation on a Jazz Theme (New York, 2001), unpaginated