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, 1991
    Page Imageworks, San Francisco, as agent

  • Exhibited

    Collected, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, 2 May 2016 - 31 January 2017

  • Literature

    Pier 24 Photography, Collected, p. 107 (this print)
    Heyman, Seeing Straight: The f.64 Revolution in Photography, pl. 68

31

Easter Lily

1932
Gelatin silver print.
9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. (24.8 x 19.1 cm)
Signed in pencil on the Crescent Board mount; titled and dated in ink on the '58 Wildwood Gardens, Piedmont, California’ label affixed to the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

Sold for $11,250

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Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection

New York Auction 4 April 2019