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Tina Modotti

Woman of Tehuantepec, Mexico

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10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Tina Modotti

1896 - 1942

Woman of Tehuantepec, Mexico



gelatin silver print, tipped to a modern mount, framed

image: 9 by 7¼ in. (23 by 18.5 cm.)

frame: 20⅝ by 16⅝ in. (52.5 by 42.3 cm.)

Executed circa 1929.

Collection of Frances Toor, anthropologist, ethnographer, and founder of the journal Mexican Folkways

Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., New York

Acquired from the above in 2006 by the present owner

Sarah Lowe, Tina Modotti: Photographs (Philadelphia, 1995), pl. 107

Tina Modotti and Edward Weston: Mexican Years (Throckmorton Fine Art, 1999), pl. 41

Tina Modotti: The Mexican Renaissance (Paris, 2000), p. 94

Tina Modotti: Fotografien einer Revolutionärin (Berlin, 2012), p. 22

Tina Modotti (Madrid, 2022), p. 37

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