Seydou Keïta - Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II New York Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Phillips
  • Condition Report

  • Description

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  • Provenance

    Paul Morris Gallery, New York

  • Exhibited

    Through You: Photography Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 4 September – 24 October 2008
    Africa: Photographs and Video from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Fort Myers, 26 October - 8 December 2012
    Shared History: Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 24 January – 7 March 2020

  • Literature

    Scalo, Seydou Keïta, p. 97
    Steidl, Seydou Keïta: Photographs, Bamako, Mali 1948-1963, pl. 84
    University of Pennsylvania, Through You: Photography Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, exh cat., p. 38

  • Catalogue Essay

    The original caption for this work reads:

    'Republican guards in leave uniforms. They are standing next to a woman wearing a dress called a "grand Dakar" or "robe Samba", because of the stripes. She is wearing a head-scarf tied behind her head and has a toothpick at the corner of her mouth, a small gold ring tied around her neck, plus a cornelian necklace, called "balls of millet porridge" (mòni kuruni), and a silver bracelet (plaki).'

82

Untitled (woman with Republican guards in leave uniforms)

1956-1957
Gelatin silver print, printed 1998.
22 3/8 x 15 3/4 in. (56.8 x 40 cm)
Signed twice and dated in ink in the margin.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II

New York Auction 9 October 2024