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Paul Outerbridge, Jr.

Golf Score Keeper

Lot Closed

March 5, 06:25 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Paul Outerbridge, Jr.

1896 - 1958


Golf Score Keeper

title and 'CEB' in pencil (on the mount), a Harper's Bazaar use stamp, with date and caption 'Christmas Gift' in pencil (on the reverse), a coversheet, with credit and reproduction rights stamp (affixed to the reverse of the mount along the top edge)

platinum print

4⅝ by 3½ in.

11.7 by 8.9 cm.

Executed in 1924.


Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Nora Feder-Johnson at Nora.FederJohnson@sothebys.com.

By descent to the photographer's estate

Collection of Barry Friedman, New York

Christie's, New York, Image as Object: Photographs from the Collection of Barry Friedman, 5 October 1998, Lot 79

Private collection

Christie's, New York, 6 April 2016, Lot 48

'Adventures in Giving,' Harper's Bazaar, December 1924, pp. 62-69, illustrated (this print)

Elaine Dines, ed., Paul Outerbridge: A Singular Aesthetic, Photographs & Drawings 1921-1941, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, 1981, no. 217, p. 170, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Elaine Dines, et al., Paul Outerbridge, Cologne, 1999, p. 80, illustrated (another example illustrated)