Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)

The Flat-Iron, 1903

Price realised USD 87,500
Estimate
USD 25,000 – USD 35,000
Closed: 18 Feb 2016
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Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)

The Flat-Iron, 1903

Price realised USD 87,500
Closed: 18 Feb 2016
Price realised USD 87,500
Closed: 18 Feb 2016
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Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
The Flat-Iron, 1903
photogravure on Japan vellum, mounted on board
image: 12 7/8 x 6 5/8 in. (32.8 x 16.8 cm.)
sheet: 18 3/8 x 12 ½ in. (52.1 x 31.7 cm.)
mount: 20 ½ x 15 in. (52.2 x 38.1 cm.)
Provenance
The artist;
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986);
Doris Bry (1921-2014), New York;
Paul Katz, New York (as agent);
The Gilman Paper Company, 1979;
Important Photographs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Including Works from the Gillman Paper Company Collection, Sotheby's, New York, February 14 & 15, 2006, lot 3;
with Babcock Galleries, New York.
Literature
Camera Work, No. 4, April 1906, pl. I.
Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer, Random House, New York, 1973, pl. VII.
William Innes Homer, Alfred Stieglitz and the American Avant-Garde, Bulfinch Press, Boston, 1977, pl. 9.
David Travis and Anne Kennedy, Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs, 1900-1930, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1979, pl. 154.
Richard Whelan, Stieglitz on Photography: His Selected Essays and Notes, Aperture, New York, 2000, p. 112.
Sarah Greenough et al., Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2000, p. 2, pl. 26.
Sarah Greenough, Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set, Volume One 1886-1922, Abrams/National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002, p. 173, cat. no. 288.
Exhibited
Hanover, New Hampshire, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Winter, February - March 1986.

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