Ruth Orkin - Photographs London Friday, May 16, 2008 | Phillips

Create your first list.

Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.

  • Provenance

    Swann Auction Galleries, New York, 21 October 2003, lot 243

  • Exhibited


    Jinx Allen in Florence, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, 16 September – 22 October 2005, (there another example exhibited); Ruth Orkin: Above and Beyond, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, 9 December 1999 – 22 January 2000, (there another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    Howard Greenberg Gallery/Ruth Orkin Photo Archive, Ruth Orkin: American Girl in Italy: The Making of a Classic, exh. cat., New York, 2005, pl. 10 and cover; Howard Greenberg Gallery/Ruth Orkin Photo Archive, Ruth Orkin: Above and Beyond, exh. cat., New York, 2000, p. 9

232

American girl in Italy, Florence

1951
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
30.5 x 45.7 cm (12 x 18 in).
Signed, titled, dated and annotated ‘from the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’ in pencil in the margin; signed, titled, dated and annotated ‘from the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’ in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
£3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for £6,250

Photographs

17 May 2008, 5pm
London