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    19 May 2004

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    • NELLY (ELLI SERAIDARI) (1889-1
    Lot 157

    NELLY (ELLI SERAIDARI) (1889-1998)

    Athènes - Nicolsca dansant dans le Parthénon, 1929

    Price realised

    GBP 5,975

    Estimate

    GBP 6,000 - GBP 8,000

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    NELLY (ELLI SERAIDARI) (1889-1998)
    Athènes - Nicolsca dansant dans le Parthénon, 1929
    gelatin silver print
    signed and titled in pencil on secondary mount
    6¼ x 8 1/8in. (15.8 x 21.8cm.) framed

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Volià, No.168, 9 June 1934, front cover; Exhibition catalogue, Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the Twentieth Century Selections from the Helen Kornblum Collection, Mead Art Museum, 1997, p.103; M. Harder, Nelly: Dresden, Athens, New York, Munich, London & New York, 2001, front cover and pl.32.


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