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Harry Callahan

Cattails Against Sky

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6,000 - 9,000 USD

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Harry Callahan

1912 - 1999

Cattails Against Sky


a sequence of 4 gelatin silver prints, each signed with a stylus in the black margin, 3 signed and one titled and dated in pencil on the reverse, framed together

images: 2¼ by 2 in. (5.7 by 5 cm.)

frame: 20⅜ by 10¾ in. (51.8 by 27.3 cm.)

Executed in 1948, printed later.

Sotheby's New York, 31 October 1989, Sale 5921, Lot 653

Private collection

Christie's New York, 5 October 1999, Sale 9298, Lot 18

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Harry Callahan: Photographs (Santa Barbara, 1964), p. 23

Harry Callahan (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1967), p. 63 (variant)

Britt Salvesen, Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 2006), pl. 1 (variant)