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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

Yasuhiro Ishimoto

Selected Images of Children (6 photographs)

Lot closes

October 21, 06:38 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Starting Bid

5,500 USD

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Description

Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

Yasuhiro Ishimoto

1921 - 2012


Selected Images of Children (6 photographs)

Museum of Modern Art Photography Department Study Collection stamps and annotations in pencil (on the reverse)

6 gelatin silver prints, 2 mounted and 4 flush-mounted

images to 7⅝ by 9½ in. or the reverse 

images to 19.4 by 24.1 cm. or the reverse

Executed circa 1950-1960.


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 1965 to the present owner

Chicago (Close-Up of Smiling Face, Pencil Marks):

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Diogenes with a Camera V, September - November 1961

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Lucien Clergue and Yasuhiro Ishimoto, October 1962 - March 1965


Two Children, little boy silhouetted against white door:

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Diogenes with a Camera V, September - November 1961

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Lucien Clergue and Yasuhiro Ishimoto, October 1962 - March 1965