Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Homer Page
Men under Marquee Lights
Lot closes
October 21, 07:11 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Current Bid
500 USD
8 Bids
No reserve
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Description
Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Homer Page
1918 - 1985
Men under Marquee Lights
Museum of Modern Art collection labels (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted to Masonite
12¾ by 10 in.
32.4 by 25.4 cm.
Executed in 1933, printed no later than 1958.
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.
Gift of the photographer in 1958 to the present owner
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Photographs from the Museum Collection, November 1958 - January 1959
Born in Oakland, California, Homer Page attended the Institute of Design in Chicago in 1940 and '41. He worked as a commercial photographer in San Francisco and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1950. Later in his career, Page became photo editor for Argosy magazine, and his photographs appeared in the New York Times Magazine and Harpers.
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