Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale
Lee Friedlander
The Little Screens
Auction Closed
May 1, 11:36 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Lee Friedlander
B. 1934
The Little Screens
a suite of 52 gelatin silver prints, 23 mounted, each signed and many titled and dated in pencil, and with the photographer’s ‘44 South Mountain Rd., New City, New York’ credit stamps on the reverse, each framed, Fraenkel Gallery labels on the reverse, 1961-70, 42 printed in the 1960s and 10 printed later
images: each no larger than 8½ by 13 in. (21.6 by 33 cm.) or the reverse
frames: each no larger than 14½ by 16½ in. (36.8 by 41.9 cm.) or the reverse
Lee Friedlander: The Little Screens (Fraenkel Gallery, 2001), all plates
'The Little Screens: A Photographic Essay by Lee Friedlander with a Comment by Walker Evans,' Harper's Bazaar, February, 1963, pp. 126-9
John Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 14
Rod Slemmons, Like a One-Eyed Cat: Photographs by Lee Friedlander, 1956-1987 (Seattle Art Museum, 1989), pl. 29
Keith Davis, An American Century of Photography, from Dry-Plate to Digital, 2nd ed. (Hallmark, 1999), pl. 379
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2000), pls. 265 and 319
Peter Galassi, Friedlander (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005), fig. 24 and pls. 75, 79, 80, 81, 82, 85, 88, 90, 91, 93, and 152
Americans: Masterpieces of American Photography, 1940-2006 (Kunsthalle Wien, 2006), pp. 45, 47, and 52
David Campany, Walker Evans: The Magazine Work (Göttingen, 2014), pp. 200-01
Jeff Rosenheim, Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020), p. 58
Lee Friedlander (Madrid and Barcelona: Fundación MAPFRE, 2020), cover, pp. 13 and 71-7
San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, The Inaugural Exhibition, March 2010 – June 2010