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The Jill and Marshall Rose Collection

Edward Steichen

Balzac, The Open Sky—11 P.M.

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The Jill and Marshall Rose Collection

Edward Steichen

1879 - 1973


Balzac, The Open Sky—11 P.M.

incised STEICHEN MDCCCCVIII (lower right)

gum bichromate print, flush-mounted to board

19 ¾ by 14 ¾ in. 

50.2 by 37.5 cm.

Executed in 1908.

Sotheby's New York, 12 May 1986, lot 372

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Alfred Stieglitz, ed. Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly, vol. 34–35, New York 1911, n.p., illustrated

Rodin, dessins inédits: Ten Drawings by Rodin, Reproduced From Originals in the Possession of an American Collector; With a Portrait of the Artist and Three Reproductions in Photogravure of Rodin's Balzac by E. Steichen, New York 1918, pl. 2, illustrated

Carl Sandburg, Alexander Liberman, et al., Steichen The Photographer, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1961, p. 30, illustrated

Edward Steichen, A Life in Photography, New York 1963, pl. 53, illustrated

Weston J. Naef, The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz: Fifty Pioneers of Modern Photography, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1978, p. 458, illustrated

Dennis Longwell, Steichen: The Master Prints 1895 - 1914, The Symbolist Period, New York, The Museum of Modern Art 1978, pl. 67, illustrated

Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin’s Studio: A photographic record of sculpture in the making, Ithaca 1980, pl. 117, illustrated

Albert E. Elsen, ed., Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art 1981, p. 236, cat. no. 205, illustrated

Pierre Apraxine and Lee Marks, Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company, Meriden 1985, pl. 132, illustrated

Hélène Pinet, Rodin: Sculpteur et Les Photographies de son Temps, Paris 1985, pl. 122

1898: Le Balzac de Rodin, Paris, Musée Rodin 1998, p. 409, illustrated

Joel Smith, Edward Steichen: The Early Years, New York 1999, pl. 48., illustrated

Joanna Steichen, Steichen’s Legacy: Photographs, 1895-1973, New York 2000, pl. 127, illustrated

Sarah Greenough, ed., Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art 2000, p. 36, illustrated

Albert E. Elsen with Rosalyn Frankel Jamison, Rodin’s Art: The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Palo Alto and New York 2003, p. 386, fig. 333, illustrated

Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing, Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography, Minneapolis 2007, p. 73, illustrated

Roxana Marcoci, The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, New York, The Museum of Modern Art 2010, p. 94, illustrated

Malcolm Daniel, Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand: Masterworks from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2010, pl. 80, illustrated