Alma Lavenson - Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection New York Thursday, April 4, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Collection of Alma Lavenson
    Albert and Paul Wahrhaftig, sons of Alma Lavenson
    Susan Ehrens, Berkeley, 1989
    Page Imageworks, San Francisco, as agent

  • Exhibited

    Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 1933
    Orange Camera Club, East Orange New Jersey, n.d.
    Collected, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, 2 May 2016 - 31 January 2017

  • Literature

    Pier 24 Photography, Collected, p. 106 (this print)

20

Auratum Lily

1932
Gelatin silver print.
9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (24.1 x 18.4 cm)
Signed and dated in pencil on the mount; titled in ink on the ‘3921 Harrison Street, Oakland California’ label, with Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and Orange Camera Club exhibition labels on the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $12,500

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Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection

New York Auction 4 April 2019