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Consuelo Kanaga
Two Hands
- Estimate
- $10,000 - 15,000
$27,500
Lot Details
Gelatin silver print.
1930
6 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (15.9 x 23.5 cm)
Signed and titled in pencil on the mount; a typed credit and title label affixed the reverse of the mount.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
The image offered here was likely one of two photographs by Consuelo Kanaga included in the exhibition A Showing of Hands, held at San Francisco’s de Young Museum in 1932. In a society still segregated at that time, Kanaga’s radical photograph treats its subject with sensitivity and respect.
Provenance
Exhibited
Literature