EDWARD STEICHEN (1879–1973)

Greta Garbo, Hollywood, 1928

Details

EDWARD STEICHEN (1879–1973)
Greta Garbo, Hollywood, 1928
gelatin silver print, printed 1960s
stamped photographer's credit, titled and dated in unknown hand in pencil (verso)
image: 16 1/2 x 13 3/8 in. (41.9 x 34 cm.)
sheet: 17 x 13 7/8 in. (43.2 x 35.1 cm.)

Provenance

Helios, Art Inc., New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner by 1977.

Literature

LIFE Magazine, January 10, 1955, cover.
Edward Steichen, A Life in Photography: Edward Steichen, The Museum of Modern Art/ Doubleday & Company, New York, 1963, pl. 125.
Todd Brandon and William A. Ewing, Edward Steichen Lives in Photography, FEP Editions, Minneapolis, 2007, pl. 139, p. 183.

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Lot Essay

“Steichen’s photo (originally published in Vanity Fair in 1929) is, in many ways, the image that countless people have in mind when they think of Garbo. Her gaze is at-once so direct and so unreadable that it’s difficult to know if she’s offering the viewer a challenge, or an invitation. All we know for sure is that here is a rare sort of beauty: beguiling, disquieting, inscrutable.”—Ben Cosgrove, TIME Magazine

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