Lot 50
  • 50

Eve Arnold

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Eve Arnold
  • 'MALCOLM X, CHICAGO'
  • Gelatin silver print
signed, titled, and dated in pencil on the reverse, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, 1960, printed later

Provenance

Magnum Photos, Inc., New York, 1994

Exhibited

New York, Guggenheim Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, June - September 2004, and 4 other international venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

Palm Beach Photographic Centre, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, March 2011

Middletown, Delaware, Warner Gallery at St. Andrew's School, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, October - November 2011

Literature

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 86 and 201 (this print)

Condition

This print is in generally excellent condition. In raking light, the following are visible: a 1/2-inch deposit of original retouching in the upper portion of the image; a small crescent-shaped crease that does not appear to break the emulsion in the lower right quadrant; and a very soft linear crease in the lower left margin corner.
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