Sale 9832
Los Angeles
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13 November 2001
Price realised
USD 1,175
Estimate
HARRY SHIGETA (1887-1963) Untitled (Woman in front of an exotic backdrop) Gelatin silver print. Circa 1932. Signed and artist's seal in ink on the recto. 9 3/8 x 7½in. (23.7 x 19cm.)
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Shigeta was an early member of the Los Angeles Japanese-American Pictorialists. He later moved to Chicago and became a commercial photographer.
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