Lee Friedlander

'Galax, Va'

New York Gantry Point Warehouse

Lot Closed

October 17, 04:49 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Lot Details

Description

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Lee Friedlander

b. 1934

'Galax, Va'

gelatin silver print, signed, titled, dated and annotated ‘1-10’ in pencil and with the photographer's '44 So. Mountain Road, New City, N. Y.' studio, copyright, and ‘1963’ date stamps on the reverse, framed, a Matthew Marks Gallery label on the reverse

image: 7⅜ by 11 in. (18.7 by 27.9 cm.)

frame: 15¼ by 18¾ in. (38.7 by 47.6 cm.)

Executed in 1962.

Please note that this lot will not be on view at Sotheby's York Avenue during the presale exhibition. It is available to view by appointment at Sotheby's Gantry Point in Long Island City, New York. Please contact Anjli Patel at Anjli.Patel@sothebys.com to schedule an appointment.

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner

Lee Friedlander and Walker Evans, 'The Little Screens,' Harper's Bazaar, February 1963, p. 127

John Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 14

John Szarkowski, Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1978), p. 98

Paris - New York - Tokyo (Tsukuba Museum of Photography, 1985), pl. 206

Lee Friedlander (Paris: Centre National de la Photographie, 1987), pl. 1

Rod Slemmons, Like a One-Eyed Cat: Photographs by Lee Friedlander 1956-1987 (Seattle Art Museum, 1989), pl. 29

Jill Quasha, The Quillan Collection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Photographs (New York, 1991), pl. 67

Therese Mulligan and David Wooters, eds., Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (Köln, 2000), p. 658

Lee Friedlander: The Little Screens (San Francisco, 2001), pl. 32

Sylvia Wolf, Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001 (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002), p. 82

Peter Galassi, Friedlander (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005), pl. 75

Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection (New York, 2021), pp. 220 and 414

New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, 100 Drawings and Photographs: Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, November — December 2001