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    • ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864-1946)
    Lot 256

    ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864-1946)

    Equivalent 333, 1929

    Price realised

    USD 87,500

    Estimate

    USD 30,000 - USD 50,000

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    ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864-1946)
    Equivalent 333, 1929
    gelatin silver print
    signed, titled, dated '1937', annotated 'An American Place, 509 Madison Avenue - New York - NY.' and 'Last photograph I made.' in ink on a label affixed (to the frame backing)
    image/flush-mount: 4¾ x 3¾in. (12.1 x 9.5cm.)
    secondary mount: 13¾ x 10¾in. (35 x 27.3cm.)

    Provenance

    The Estate of Arthur Dove;
    Christie's, New York, Photographic Masterworks, April 23, 1990, lot 19;
    to a private collection;
    Christie's, New York, April 17, 1997, lot 68;
    with Janet Lehr, New York;
    to a private collection

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer, Aperture/Random House, 1973, pl. XLIV, there reproduced upside-down and dated 1936; Greenough, Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C./Harry N. Abrams, 2002, Volume Two, cat. no. 1257, p. 721, there dated 1929


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