Lot 82
  • 82

Harry Callahan

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Harry Callahan
  • 'Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago', 1953
  • Silver print
Silver print on Agfa paper, printed later. Signed and annotated EM5 in pencil on the reverse.

Provenance

Light Gallery, New York
Private European Collection 

Literature

Photographs: Harry Callahan, El Mochuelo Gallery, 1964, ill. pl. 5; 
Harry Callahan, The Museum of Modern Art, 1967, ill. p. 27;
Salvesen, Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work, Center for Creative Photography Yale University Press, 2006, ill. pl. 93;
Cox. Eleanor, High Museum of Art, 2007, ill. pl. 61.

Condition

This print is in overall very good condition. With few and very small areas of foxing in the upper half of the image and random areas of very small retouching dots. With some undulation to the left of the print, very lightly worn edges and a small (approx. 1 cm) area of possible tape residue in the upper left corner.
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