Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Tina Modotti
La téchnica (Mella's Typewriter)
Auction Closed
November 16, 11:16 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Tina Modotti
1896 - 1942
La téchnica (Mella's Typewriter)
signed, annotated, and dated Mexico - 1928 - in ink (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print
9½ by 7½ in.
24.1 by 19.1 cm.
Executed in 1928.
Witkin Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner
Private Collection, New York
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner
Stockholm, Modern Museet, Tina Modotti and the Mexican Renaissance, 2000, p. 64 (another example exhibited)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Photography in Mexico: Selected Works from the Collections of SFMoMA and Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, March - July 2012
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Photography in Mexico: Selected Works from the Collections of SFMoMA and Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, March - July 2012
Vittorio Sgarbi, et al., Photography: Venice '79, New York, 1979, p. 124, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Maria Caronia and Vittorio Vidali, Tina Modotti: Photographs, New York, 1981, n.p., illustrated (another example illustrated)
Mildred Constantine, Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life, New York, 1983, p. 153, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Tina Modotti: Photografien & Dokumente, Berlin, 1990 p. 96, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Sarah Lowe, Tina Modotti: Photographs, New York, 1995, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York, 2021, p. 303, illustrated in color, and p. 417
Maria Caronia and Vittorio Vidali, Tina Modotti: Photographs, New York, 1981, n.p., illustrated (another example illustrated)
Mildred Constantine, Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life, New York, 1983, p. 153, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Tina Modotti: Photografien & Dokumente, Berlin, 1990 p. 96, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Sarah Lowe, Tina Modotti: Photographs, New York, 1995, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York, 2021, p. 303, illustrated in color, and p. 417