Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations
Edward Steichen
Gloria Swanson
No reserve
Lot Closed
December 18, 07:55 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Edward Steichen
1879 - 1973
gelatin silver print, framed, 1924, probably printed in the 1960s
image: 11⅛ by 9 in. (28.3 by 22.9 cm.)
frame: 21 by 18½ in. (53.3 by 47 cm.)
Danziger Projects, New York, 2011
Steichen the Photographer (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961), p. 47
Edward Steichen, A Life in Photography (New York, 1963), pl. 127
Joel Smith, Edward Steichen: The Early Years (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999), p. 8
Joanna Steichen, Steichen's Legacy: Photographs, 1895-1973 (New York, 2000), pl. 79
Barbara Haskell, Edward Steichen (New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2000), cover and p. 79
Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing, Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography (Minneapolis: Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography and Lausanne: Musée de L’Elysée, 2007), p. 158
Chicago, Photo Expo 71, April 1971
San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, About Face, May 2012 – February 2013
Other prints of Gloria Swanson are held in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, among others.