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EDWARD STEICHEN (1879–1973)
Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France, 1914
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board, printed probably 1960s–1970s by Rolf Petersen
titled and variously numbered in pencil (flush mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed Museum of Modern Art label (mat, verso)
image/sheet/flush mount: 1034 x 1334 in. (27.3 x 34.9 cm.)
Provenance
Gifted by the photographer to The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Literature
Dennis Longwell, Steichen: The Master Prints 1895-1914, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1978, pl. 72, p. 166.
Edward Steichen, Aperture, New York, 1978, p. 55.
Joanna Steichen, Steichen's Legacy, Photographs, 1895-1973, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2000, pl. 308, p. 365.
Barbara Haskell, Edward Steichen, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 29.
Todd Brandow and William A Ewing, Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography, FEP Editions, Minneapolis, 2007, pl. 61.
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