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ROY DECARAVA (1919-2009)
Couple Dancing, 1956
photogravure, printed later
signed, dated and numbered '16 / 50' in pencil (margin)
image: 1218 x 734 in. (30.8 x 19.7 cm.)
sheet: 23 x 1734 in. (58.4 x 45.1 cm.)
This work is number sixteen from an edition of fifty.
Provenance
Private Collection;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Roy DeCarava: Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1975, cat. no. 58, p. 59.
Roy Decarava and Sherry Turner, Roy DeCarava: Photographs, The Friends of Photography, 1981, pl. 33.
Roy Decarava et al., The Sound I Saw: The Jazz Photographs of Roy DeCarava, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1983, pl. 26, p. 41.
Peter Galassi, Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective, The Museum of Modern Art, 1996, p. 181.
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