Seydou Keïta - Photographs London Friday, May 19, 2023 | Phillips

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  • ‘‘The person had to be made to look his or her best. Often, they became serious, and I think they were also intimidated by the camera. It was a new sensation for them. I always told them to relax more: ‘OK, look over here, try to smile a little, not too much.’ In the end, they liked it.’’ 
    —Seydou Keïta

    • Provenance

      Galerie Dorothée De Pauw, Brussels, 1999

    • Literature

      A. Magnin, Seydou Keïta, Zurich: Scalo, 1997, p. 229
      Seydou Keïta: Photographs, Bamako, Mali 1948-1963, Göttingen: Steidl, 2011, n.p.

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

34

Untitled (Father and daughter, Bamako)

1949-1951
Gelatin silver print, printed 1998, mounted.
Image: 165 x 118.5 cm (64 7/8 x 46 5/8 in.)
Frame: 183 x 129 cm (72 x 50 3/4 in.)

Signed and dated in ink in the margin.

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Estimate
£18,000 - 22,000 

Sold for £33,020

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London Auction 19 May 2023