Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer | Online Auction
Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer | Online Auction
Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Maya Deren
Distorted Portrait of a Man
Lot Closed
February 29, 03:21 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Maya Deren
1917 - 1961
Distorted Portrait of a Man
signed in pencil (on the mount)
gelatin silver print
9⅝ by 7¾ in.
24.4 by 19.7 cm.
Executed in the 1930s.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Montserrat Palacios at Montserrat.Palacios@sothebys.com
Sotheby's New York, 8 May 1979, lot 234
Private Collection
Christie's New York, 4 October 2001, lot 180
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York 2021, pp. 371 and 414, illustrated