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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

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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
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
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