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Alma Lavenson

Self-Portrait

Lot Closed

October 5, 02:01 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Alma Lavenson

1897 - 1989

Self-Portrait


gelatin silver print, signed in pencil in the margin, 1932, printed in 1986 

image: 6 ¾ by 9 in. (17.1 by 22.9 cm.)

Collection of the photographer

By descent to her family

Alma Lavenson (Riverside: California Museum of Photography, 1979), title page

Susan Ehrens, Alma Lavenson Photographs (Berkeley, 1990), cover and p. 87

Thomas Weston Fels, Watkins to Weston: 101 Years of California Photography, 1849-1950 (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1992), p. 173 and back cover

The Altering Eye: Photographs from the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D. C., 2015), pl. 134

The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection (London, 2016), p. 89

Andrea Nelson, The New Woman Behind the Camera (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020), dust jacket and p. 20