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Isadora Duncan at the Portals of the Parthenon, 1921
Details
Edward Steichen (1879-1973)
Isadora Duncan at the Portals of the Parthenon, 1921
toned gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board, printed 1960s
signed in pencil (recto); signed, titled, dated in pencil with print date, Joanna Steichen's initials, inscription 'On loan for exhibition in/Australia/Please return to Museum of Modern Art/31 West 53rd St/n. y. c.' and various annotations in pencil (verso)
image: 13 3/4 x 10 5/8 in. (35 x 27.2 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 28 cm.)
Isadora Duncan at the Portals of the Parthenon, 1921
toned gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board, printed 1960s
signed in pencil (recto); signed, titled, dated in pencil with print date, Joanna Steichen's initials, inscription 'On loan for exhibition in/Australia/Please return to Museum of Modern Art/31 West 53rd St/n. y. c.' and various annotations in pencil (verso)
image: 13 3/4 x 10 5/8 in. (35 x 27.2 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 28 cm.)
Provenance
Swann Galleries, New York, March 23, 2010, lot 80.
Literature
Edward Steichen, A Life in Photography, Doubleday & Company/The Museum of Modern Art, Garden City, New York, 1963, pl. 86.
Joanna Steichen, Steichen's Legacy: Photographs, 1895-1973, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2000, pl. 175.
Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing, Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography, W.W. Norton & Company/The Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography and the Musée de l'Elysée, New York and London, 2007, pl. 83, p. 115.
Joanna Steichen, Steichen's Legacy: Photographs, 1895-1973, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2000, pl. 175.
Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing, Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography, W.W. Norton & Company/The Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography and the Musée de l'Elysée, New York and London, 2007, pl. 83, p. 115.