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Edward Steichen
(1876-1973)
'HEAVY ROSES, VOULANGIS, FRANCE'
warm-toned, inscribed 'tone' and numbered by the photographer in pencil and annotated 'Top' by him in red pencil, and various notations in unidentified hands in pencil and blue crayon on the reverse, 1914
7 3/4 by 9 1/2 in. 19.7 by 24.1 cm.
Provenance
Gift of the photographer, 1961
Exhibited
Steichen: The Master Prints 1895-1914, February - March, 1978
Reinstallation of the photography collection galleries, January 1990
Whitney Museum of American Art, Edward Steichen, October 2000 - February 2001
Literature
A Life in Photography, pl. 62
Steichen the Photographer, p. 33
Steichen's Legacy, pl. 308
Whitney, pl. 29
Produced shortly before the outbreak of World War I forced Steichen to leave Europe, Heavy Roses, Voulangis, is unquestionably one of his most celebrated and important images. While Steichen, an avid gardener, would continue to photograph flowers throughout his career, none of these images would be as expressive as Heavy Roses, Voulangis, which he later called an omen of the war to come.
As of this writing, only three early prints of this image have been located. These are: two palladium prints, one at The Museum of Modern Art, the other in a private collection; and a toned gelatin silver print offered at Christie's New York, 15 May 1980 (Lot 36). A handful of prints of this image, printed by Rolf Petersen in the 1960s, have also appeared at auction.