Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Aaron Siskind
Chicago 9
Lot closes
October 21, 07:20 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Starting Bid
7,000 USD
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Description
Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Aaron Siskind
1903 - 1991
Chicago 9
a typed label and directional notation in orange wax pencil (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted to Masonite with inked edges
13½ by 19 in.
34.3 by 48.3 cm.
Executed in 1948.
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 Natalie Alford at Natalie.Alford@sothebys.com.
Acquired from the photographer with the Nelson A. Rockefeller Fund in 1950 by the present owner
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Photographs by 51 Photographers, August - September 1950
Aaron Siskind: Photographs, New York, 1959, cover, illustrated
Interior Drama: Aaron Siskind's Photographs of the 1940s, Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 2003, p. 50, illustrated
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