Edward S. Curtis
Chief of the Desert
No reserve
Lot Closed
December 18, 08:29 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Edward S. Curtis
1868 - 1952
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted, signed, annotated 'L.A.' and copyrighted in ink, 1904; accompanied by a typed caption from The Edward S. Curtis Studios, Inc.
image: 7⅝ by 5⅝ in. (19.4 by 14.3 cm.)
Collection of Lissie Habie
Christie's, New York, 5 April 2012, Sale 2543, Lot 237
Florence Curtis Graybill and Victor Boesen, Edward Sheriff Curtis: Visions of a Vanishing Race (Boston, 1976), pl. 1 and back cover
Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian, The Complete Portfolios (Köln, 1997), p. 53
Christopher Cardozo, ed., Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian (New York, 2000), p. 119 (alternate cropping)
“Picturing not only the individual but a characteristic member of the tribe–disdainful, energetic, self-reliant” (The North American Indian, The Complete Portfolios, p. 53).
This print was originally in the collection of Elizabeth Habie Denburg, known as Lissie Habie, who was a Guatemalan photographic artist and founder of the New Roots Foundation, which focuses on supporting the education, arts, and environment of Guatemala.
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