

46
Margaret Bourke-White
Cable Spool
- Estimate
- $15,000 - 25,000
$35,000
Lot Details
Gelatin silver print.
circa 1930
18 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (47 x 31.8 cm)
Calligraphically credited in an unidentified hand in pencil on the mount.
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Catalogue Essay
This impressive exhibition-sized print came originally from the collection of American sculptor Ruth Nickerson Greacen, as did the Bourke-White photograph Concrete Trestle, offered as lot 43. Both large prints are similarly presented on mounts with calligraphic lettering. Another similarly-presented Bourke-White photograph in the Joy of Giving Something Foundation collection, also with the Greacen provenance and sold at Sotheby’s in 2014, was exhibited by the American Federation of the Arts in the 1930s; it is possible that the two prints offered here were part of that exhibition, as well.
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