Name: ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864–1946)
Brand: Portrait of Georgia, No.1, 1923
Price: 50000.00 USD
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ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864–1946)
Portrait of Georgia, No.1, 1923
gelatin silver contact print, flush–mounted on card, mounted on larger card
initialed 'AS', dated '1920?' and annotated 'Coomara' by the artist in pencil, inscribed 'Portrait of O'Keeffe by Stieglitz/ given to Dorothy Norman/ by Dona Luisa/ Coomaraswamy/ after A.S.'s death/ in 1946' in pencil by Dorothy Norman on affixed original mount fragments and credited, titled and dated 'printed c. 1920' on affixed museum label (secondary mount, verso)
image/sheet/flush mount: 4⁵⁄₈ x 3⁵⁄₈ (11.8 x 9.2 cm.)
secondary mount: 13³⁄₈ x 10¹⁄₄ in. (34 x 26 cm.)

Gifted by the artist to Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1877–1947);
gifted by the wife of the above to Dorothy Norman (1905–1997), c. 1946;
acquired from the above by Light Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by John M. Bransten, San Francisco, 1972;
by descent to the estate of the above;
Portrait of a Collector: The John M. Bransten Collection of Photographs, Christie's New York, April 6, 2017, lot 6;
acquired from the above sale by the late owner.

Sarah Greenough, Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set, Volume Two 1923-1937, Abrams/National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002, cat. no. 920, p. 546.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, A History of Photography from CA Collections, February 9–April 30, 1989, #4.89.

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