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EDWARD STEICHEN (1879–1973)
Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France, 1914
toned gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed probably late 1950s–1960s
signed and dated in pencil (mount, recto)
image/sheet: 7 x 8 3/4 in. (17.8 x 22.2 cm.)
mount: 13 5/8 x 16 3/4 in. (34.6 x 42.5 cm.)
Provenance
Bequest of Frances Keech 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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