The One
The One
Property from An Important East Coast Collection
F. Holland Day
St. Sebastian
Auction Closed
February 2, 03:31 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from An Important East Coast Collection
F. Holland Day
1864 - 1933
St. Sebastian
octagonally-trimmed platinum print, signed and dated in red ink on the image, a Library of Congress Fine Arts Division stamp and numerical notations in ink on the reverse, tipped to a double paper mount, Library of Congress Fine Arts Division and Surplus Duplicates stamps and numerical notations in ink on the reverse, 1906
image: 9 by 7½ in. (22.9 by 19.1 cm.)
Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Acquired from the above in the 1970s by the present owner
Ellen Fritz Clattenburg, The Photographic Work of F. Holland Day, Wellesley College Museum, 1975, p. 58
Estelle Jussim, Slave to Beauty: The Eccentric Life and Controversial Career of F. Holland Day, Photographer, Publisher, Aesthete, Boston, 1981, p. 79
F. Holland Day: Suffering the Ideal, Santa Fe, 1995, pls. 2 and 53
Pam Roberts, F. Holland Day, Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 2000, c. 74