Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Aaron Siskind
'Chicago 224'
No reserve
Lot Closed
October 5, 03:53 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Aaron Siskind
1903 - 1991
'Chicago 224'
gelatin silver print, titled 'Ch 224,' dated '5/57,' and annotated 'UB4' in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1953, probably printed in 1957
image: 16 ¾ by 13 ⅝ in. (42.5 by 34.6 cm.)
frame: 25 ¾ by 22 ¾ in. (65.4 by 57.8 cm.)
Collection of Shirley Carter Burden
By descent through family to the present owners
Carl Chiarenza, Pleasures and Terrors (New York, 1982), cover and p. 137
David Travis and Elizabeth Siegel, Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937–1971 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2002), pl. 112.