Sotheby's: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art: Lot 136
Alfred Stieglitz
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Alfred Stieglitz
(1864-1946)
DOROTHY NORMAN-HANDS
flush-mounted, mounted to larger card, inscribed and dated, 'Hands DN by AS 1930' and annotated 'MOMA 23' by the sitter and with other notations in unidentified hands in pencil on the reverse, matted, 1932
4 1/2 by 3 5/8 in. 11.4 by 9.2 cm.
Provenance
Bequest of Dorothy Norman, 1997
Literature
Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer, pl. LXVII
Mark Holborn, Beyond a Portrait, pl. 4
Norman, Encounters: A Memoir, following p. 178
The print offered here is believed to be one of only five prints of the image extant. The other prints are all in institutional collections: The Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art.
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