Alfred Stieglitz - Photographs New York Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Phillips
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  • Description

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  • Provenance

    Light Gallery, New York, 1972
    Collection of John M. Bransten, San Francisco
    By descent to a Private Collection
    Christie's, New York, Portrait of a Collector: The John M. Bransten Collection of Photographs, 6 April 2017, lot 1

  • Literature

    Greenough, Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set, Volume One, cat. no. 310
    Camera Work, Number 36, October 1911, p. 39
    Bulfinch Press, Alfred Stieglitz, pl. 18
    Green, A Critical History of American Photography, p. 195
    Margolis, Alfred Stieglitz, Camera Work: A Pictorial Guide, p. 100
    Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer, pl. XVI
    Taschen, 20th Century Photography: Museum Ludwig Cologne, p. 673
    Taschen, Photo Icons: The Story Behind the Pictures, Volume 1, p. 135
    The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer, pl. 8
    Whelan, Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography, Photography, Georgia O'Keeffe, and the Rise of the Avant-Garde in America, n.p.

IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN COLLECTION

263

The Steerage

1907
Large format photogravure on tissue, printed no later than 1915.
12 1/2 x 10 1/8 in. (31.8 x 25.7 cm)

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

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New York Auction 9 October 2024