Ruth Orkin
'The Card Players'
Lot Closed
October 5, 03:46 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ruth Orkin
1921 - 1985
'The Card Players'
a sequence of 6 gelatin silver prints, each signed in ink in the margin, signed, titled, dated, copyrighted, and numbered sequentially in pencil and the second annotated 'Shot at Horatio & Washington Sts Greenwich Village / The only sequence in the "Family of Man" / Marilyn Hermon, aged 4', 1947' on the reverse, each framed, 1947, printed later (6)
images: each 6 ½ by 9 in. (16.5 by 22.9 cm.)
frames: each 11 ½ by 14 ½ in. (29.2 by 36.8 cm.)
Collection of Shirley Carter Burden
By descent through family to the present owners
Edward Steichen, The Family of Man (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1955), p. 40
Ruth Orkin (New York, 1995), pp. 14-15
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