Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Louis Stettner
Manhattan from the Promenade, Brooklyn, New York
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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Louis Stettner
1922 - 2016
Manhattan from the Promenade, Brooklyn, New York
signed, dated 1956 and 1978, numbered 3/5, annotated “Gift in memory of my brother David” and with title in pencil (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print
12⅜ by 18¼ in.
31.4 by 46.4 cm.
Executed in 1956, printed in 1978, this print is number 3 from an edition of 5.
Gift of the photographer in memory of his brother David Stettner in 1994 to the present owner
Madrid La Casa Encendida; Italy, Museo di Arte Moderno y Contemporaneo de Rovereto y Trento; Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art; and Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Picturing New York: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art, March 2009 - October 2011
Louis Stettner, Early Joys: Photographs from 1947-1972, New York, 1987, no. 54, p. 154, illustrated
Louis Stettner, Paris, 1998, no. 32, illustrated
Louis Stettner: Photographe, Paris, 2013, p. 27, illustrated
Louis Stettner, Ici Ailleurs: Sous la Direction de Clément Chéroux et Julie Jones, Paris: Centre Pompidou 2016, pp. 26 and 200-201, illustrated
Louis Stettner: Traveling Light, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2018, p. 172, illustrated
Louis Stettner, Madrid: Fundación MAPFRE, 2024, fig. 17, no. 109, pp. 26 and 200-01, illustrated
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