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PHOTOGRAPHS
ARTIST
Tina Modotti
Size
9 3/8 x 7 1/8 in. (23.8 x 18.1 cm)
Description
IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN COLLECTION
Medium
Platinum print.
Signature
Vittorio Vidali's 'Commissar of the Fifth Regiment' stamp, a typed caption label, and reduction notations in an unidentified hand in pencil on the verso.
Provenance
The photographer to Vittorio Vidali
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Private Collection, 2000
Sotheby's, New York, Important Photographs from a Private Collection, 27 April 2004, lot 21
Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., New York, 2008
Literature
Constantine, Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life, p. 112 (this print)
Fraenkel Gallery, 20twenty, pl. 13 (this print)
Other prints of this image:
Agostinis, Tina Modotti: Gil anni Luminosi, p. 98
Benito, Luz Y Tiempo: Colección Fotográfica Formada Por Manuel Alvarez Bravo Para La Fundación Cultural Televisa, p. 351
Hooks, Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary, p. 126
List Arzubide, El Movimiento Estridentista, p. 54
Modotti, et al., Tina Modotti: The Mexican Renaissance, p. 15
Lowe, Tina Modotti: Photographs, fig. 16, pl. 37