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Paul Strand

'Toadstool and Grasses, Maine'

Auction Closed

October 25, 04:33 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Paul Strand

1890 - 1976

'Toadstool and Grasses, Maine'


gelatin silver print, flush-mounted to card, titled, dated, credited and initialed by Hazel Strand, the photographer's widow, and with 'MEH32 in pencil on the reverse, 1928, printed later 

image: 9½ by 7⅝ in. (24.1 by 19.4 cm.)

Sotheby's, New York, 12 October 2000, Sale 7518, Lot 153

Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich

Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 18 October 2006, Sale 40206, Lot 111

Paul Strand, A Retrospective Monograph: The Years 1915-1968 (Millerton, 1971), p. 58

John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1973), p. 97

Nancy Newhall and Paul Strand, Time in New England (Aperture, 1977), p. 196

Paul Strand: Masters of Photography (Aperture, 1987), p. 29

Sarah Greenough, Paul Strand: An American Vision (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1990), p. 55

Peter Barbarie and Amanda N. Bock, Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014), pl. 71

The present image was chosen to represent Paul Strand's work in John Szarkowski's highly influential book, Looking at Photographs.

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