LEE FRIEDLANDER (B. 1934)

Fifteen Photographs

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LEE FRIEDLANDER (B. 1934)
Fifteen Photographs
New York: Double Elephant Press, 1973. Portfolio of fifteen gelatin silver prints, each mounted on paper with impressed border; each signed and annotated 'a/e' in pencil (mount, recto); image/sheet sizes ranging from 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (16.5 x 24.8 cm.) to 8 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (21.5 x 32.2 cm.) or inverse; each mount 15 1/2 x 20 in. (39.3 x 50.8 cm.); together with colophon, plate list and introduction by Walker Evans; artist's proof letter 'e' from an edition of seventy-five plus fifteen artist's proofs lettered 'a' through 'o'; contained in silver cloth clamshell portfolio case with embossed lettering.

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, April 17, 1991, lot 424;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

Lot Essay

The titles are as follows:

T.V. in hotel room – Galax, Virginia, 1962
Bed in window – Cincinnati, Ohio, 1963
Women in window – New York City, 1963
Man in window – New York City, 1964
Plane over bull – Kansas City, Missouri, 1965
Flag – New York City, 1965
Shadow – New York City, 1966
Party – New York City, 1968
Filling Station – rear view mirror – Hillcrest, New York, 1970
Lee Av – Butte, Montana, 1970
Car & fence & bush – San Diego, California, 1970
Street scene, trees & houses – Hollywood, California, 1970
Statue – New Jersey, 1971
House, trailer, sign, cloud – Knoxville, Tennessee, 1971
Street scene – man, pole, etc. – Chicago, 1972

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