Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations

Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations

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Edward Steichen

Gloria Swanson

No reserve

Lot Closed

December 18, 07:55 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Edward Steichen

1879 - 1973


gelatin silver print, framed, 1924, probably printed in the 1960s

image: 11⅛ by 9 in. (28.3 by 22.9 cm.)

frame: 21 by 18½ in. (53.3 by 47 cm.)

Danziger Projects, New York, 2011

Steichen the Photographer (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961), p. 47

Edward Steichen, A Life in Photography (New York, 1963), pl. 127

Joel Smith, Edward Steichen: The Early Years (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999), p. 8

Joanna Steichen, Steichen's Legacy: Photographs, 1895-1973 (New York, 2000), pl. 79

Barbara Haskell, Edward Steichen (New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2000), cover and p. 79

Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing, Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography (Minneapolis: Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography and Lausanne: Musée de L’Elysée, 2007), p. 158

Chicago, Photo Expo 71, April 1971

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, About Face, May 2012 – February 2013

Other prints of Gloria Swanson are held in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, among others.