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EDWARD STEICHEN (1879–1973)

Greta Garbo, 1928

    Price Realised USD 50,400
    Estimate
    USD 40,000 - USD 60,000
    Closed: 6 Oct 2022
    EDWARD STEICHEN (1879–1973)

    Greta Garbo, 1928

    Price Realised USD 50,400
    Closed: 6 Oct 2022
    Price Realised USD 50,400
    Closed: 6 Oct 2022
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    EDWARD STEICHEN (1879–1973)

    Greta Garbo, 1928
    gelatin silver print, mounted on board
    stamped photographer's '80 West 40th Street' credit (mount, verso)
    image/sheet: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.4 cm.)
    ‌mount: 17 1/2 x 12 7/8 in. (44.5 x 32.7 cm.)
    Provenance
    Private Collection;
    Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, 1996;
    Private Collection;
    Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco;
    acquired from the above by the present owner, 2011.
    Literature
    Vanity Fair, October, 1929.
    LIFE Magazine, January 10, 1955, cover.
    Carl Sandberg et al., Steichen: The Photographer, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961, p. 49.
    Beaumont Newhall, The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present Day, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1964, p. 186.
    Edward Steichen, Edward Steichen: A Life in Photography, Bonanza Books, New York, 1984, pl. 125.
    Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing, Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography, Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis, and the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, 2007, pl. 139, p. 183.
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