50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs

50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs

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Lee Friedlander

'Galax Va'

Lot Closed

April 21, 02:03 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Lee Friedlander

b. 1934

'Galax Va'


gelatin silver print, signed, titled, dated, and numbered '1-10' in pencil and with the photographer's '44 South Mountain Road, New City, N. Y. 10956' studio/copyright/reproduction rights stamp on the reverse, 1962

image: 5 ⅞ by 8 ⅞ in. (14.9 by 22.5 cm.)

frame: 16 ¾ by 20 ¾ in. (42.5 by 52.7 cm.)

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, 2005
Lee Friedlander and Walker Evans, 'The Little Screens,' Harper's Bazaar, February 1963, p. 127

John Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 14

John Szarkowski, Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1978), p. 98

Paris - New York - Tokyo (Tsukuba Museum of Photography, 1985), pl. 206

Lee Friedlander (Paris: Centre National de la Photographie, 1987), pl. 1

Rod Slemmons, Like a One-Eyed Cat: Photographs by Lee Friedlander 1956-1987 (Seattle Art Museum, 1989), pl. 29

Jill Quasha, The Quillan Collection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Photographs (New York, 1991), pl. 67

Therese Mulligan and David Wooters, eds., Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (Köln, 2000), p. 658

Lee Friedlander: The Little Screens (San Francisco, 2001), pl. 32

Sylvia Wolf, Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001 (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002), p. 82

Peter Galassi, Friedlander (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005), pl. 75