Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Alma Lavenson
Self-Portrait
Lot Closed
October 5, 02:01 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Alma Lavenson
1897 - 1989
Self-Portrait
gelatin silver print, signed in pencil in the margin, 1932, printed in 1986
image: 6 ¾ by 9 in. (17.1 by 22.9 cm.)
By descent to her family
Susan Ehrens, Alma Lavenson Photographs (Berkeley, 1990), cover and p. 87
Thomas Weston Fels, Watkins to Weston: 101 Years of California Photography, 1849-1950 (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1992), p. 173 and back cover
The Altering Eye: Photographs from the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D. C., 2015), pl. 134
The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection (London, 2016), p. 89
Andrea Nelson, The New Woman Behind the Camera (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020), dust jacket and p. 20