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

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  • Provenance

    From the photographer to Wallace Putnam, her husband
    Gift from Putnam to Kristina Amadeus, Putnam’s agent and estate executor
    Page Imageworks, San Francisco, as agent, 1996

  • Exhibited

    Object Lessons: Masterworks of Modernist Photography from Three Bay Area Collections, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 7 December 1995 - 10 March 1996
    Collected, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, 2 May 2016 - 31 January 2017

  • Literature

    Pier 24 Photography, Collected, p. 102 (this print)
    Millstein and Lowe, Consuelo Kanaga: An American Photographer, p. 199, variant

38

Sunflower

1942
Gelatin silver print, printing date unknown.
9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (24.1 x 19.1 cm)
Credit stamp and annotated ‘Gift to Kristina Amadeus from Wallace Putnam’ in an unidentified hand in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $8,125

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Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection

New York Auction 4 April 2019