TINA MODOTTI (1896-1942)

Untitled (Texture and Shadow), 1924-1926

Details

TINA MODOTTI (1896-1942)
Untitled (Texture and Shadow), 1924-1926
palladium print
various notations in an unknown hand in pencil/ink and 'Creative Art, 66 Fifth Avenue, N.Y.' credit stamp (on the verso)
image/sheet: 9½ x 7¼in. (24.1 x 18.4cm.)

Provenance

From the artist;
to Mildred Constantine;
with Ex Libris, New York

Literature

Modernist Masterworks to 1925 from 'the deLIGHTed eye', A Private
Collection, International Center of Photography, New York, May
15-June 16, 1985, p. 22; Lowe, Tina Modotti: Photographs, Harry N. Abrams/Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995, fig. 14, p. 25 (The Museum of Modern Art print illustrated)

Exhibited

Ex Libris, New York, 1977; Galleria dell'Obelisco, Milan, 1977; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978; Modernist Masterworks to 1925 from 'the deLIGHTed eye', A Private Collection, International Center of Photography, New York, May 15-June 16, 1985

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Lot Essay

This print of Texture and Shadow is believed to be the only one in private hands. The only other known print is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Neither print was titled by Modotti, but her close friend the journalist Carleton Beals used this title when he published the image in 1929.
Dated between 1924 and 1926, it is the purest of Modotti's abstractions, a stunning juxtaposition of darkness, light and fabric.

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