Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)

The Hand of Man, 1902

Details

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
The Hand of Man, 1902
photogravure
signed, titled, dated and inscribed 'To E.C.Z.' in pencil (margin)
image: 9 ½ x 12 3/8 in. (24 x 31.5 cm.)
sheet: 13 ¾ x 19 ½ in. (35 x 49.5 cm.)

Provenance

A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, 2011.

Literature

Alfred Stieglitz, Camera Work, New York, no. 1, January 1903, p. 47 & no. 36, October 1911, pl. XIII.
Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer, Random House/Aperture, New York, 1960, pl. X.
Doris Bry, Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1965, pl. 7.
Sarah Greenough & Juan Hamilton, Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs & Writings, Bulfinch Press/National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1999, pl. 15.
Sarah Greenough, Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set, Volume One 1886-1922, Abrams/National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002, pp. 164-66, cat. nos. 277-80.

Lot Essay

In Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs, Sarah Greenough locates eight other prints of this image in institutional collections: The Art Institute of Chicago, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, Carl Van Vechten Gallery at Fisk University, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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