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EDWARD STEICHEN (1879–1973)
Portrait of Natica Nast, 1917
toned gelatin silver print, tipped to paper
signed and dated in Roman numerals in pencil (recto)
image: 9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (24.4 x 19.3 cm.)
sheet: 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (29.2 x 24 cm.)
mount: approximately 20 1/4 x 15 in. (51.3 x 38 cm.)
Provenance
Gifted by Mrs. Gerald F. Warburg to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1982.
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Gerald F. Warburg (1901–1971), a cellist and patron of music, was married to the subject of these portraits, the former Natica Nast. Natica was the daughter of renown publisher, Condé Nast.

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