Edward Steichen - Photographs New York Wednesday, April 4, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Sotheby's, New York, 6 May 1987, lot 383

  • Literature

    Steichen and Sandburg, The Family of Man, p. 39
    Steichen, Steichen's Legacy: Photographs 1895-1973, pl. 272 there titled Dana Miller at Umpawaug Pond

  • Catalogue Essay

    This print was the only work by Steichen that he included in his groundbreaking Family of Man exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1954.

69

Splash

1954
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
16 5/8 x 13 1/2 in. (42.2 x 34.3 cm)
Titled, dated in pencil, credit stamp and annotated 'Family of Man #71 p. 39/ Book PL. 242' in an unidentified hand in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $10,000

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Vanessa Kramer Hallett
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Photographs

4 April 2012
New York