Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
W. Eugene Smith
Tomoko in her bath, Minamata
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October 5, 04:05 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
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W. Eugene Smith
1918 - 1978
Tomoko in her bath, Minamata
gelatin silver print, signed with a stylus on the image, framed, 1972
image: 11 ½ by 18 ½ in. (29.2 by 47 cm.)
frame: 18 ¾ by 25 ½ in. (47.6 by 64.8 cm.)
Collection of Shirley Carter Burden
By descent through family to the present owners
W. Eugene Smith and Aileen M. Smith, Minamata: The Story of the Poisoning of a City, and of the People Who Chose to Carry the Burden of Courage (New York, 1975), pp. 138-39
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Shirley C. Burden Photographic Collection, February - April 1978