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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 7, 2019 | Christie's | London | Masterpieces of Design and Photography | 105 | $****** - ****** | Roses, Mexico |
photographs
18.7 x 21.6 cm (7.36 x 8.5 in)
palladium print, tipped to card, in original window mat
signed and dated 'Tina Modotti 1924' in pencil (mount, recto)
A gift from the artist to Jean Roy and Lester Carter circa 1926.
Thence by descent to the present owners.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Photographs from the Museum Collection, 1958 – 1959 (another print exhibited).
Brugnera, Villa Varda-Brugnera, Tina Modotti: Gli Anni Luminosi, 1992 (another print exhibited; illustrated, p. 67).
Udine, Istituto di storia, Universita' di Udine. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi Tina Modotti. Una Vita Nella Storia, 1993, no. 14 (another print exhibited; illustrated, p. 36).
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tina Modotti: Photographs, 1995 – 1996, no. 22 (another print exhibited; illustrated, p. 62). This exhibition later travelled to Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts and San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
M. Constantine, Tina Modotti. A Fragile Life, New York 1983 (illustrated, p. 118).
'The Letters from Tiina Modotti to Edward Weston', in The Archive. Center for Ceative Photography. University of Arizona, Number 22, January 1986 (illustrated, p. 41).
M. Hooks, Tina Modotti Photographer and Revolutionary, London 1993 (illustrated, pp. iii and viii).
M. Hooks, Tina Modotti, New York 1999 (illustrated, p. 21).
P. Albers, Shadows, Fire, Snow. The Life of Tina Modotti, New York 1999 (illustrated, unpaged).
J. N. Sotelo and E. L. Alvarez (eds.), Tina Modotti. Una nueva mirada, 1929, Mexico City 2000 (illustrated, p. 74).
M. Hooks, Tina Modotti 55, London 2002 (illustrated, p. 31).
C. Armstrong, 'This Photography Which Is Not One: In the Gray Zone with Tina Modotti, in October, vol. 101, Summer 2002 (illustrated, p. 28).
L. Argenteri, Tina Modotti: Between Art and Revolution, New Haven and London 2003, p. 136 (illustrated, unpaged).
S. M. Lowe, Tina Modotti & Edward Weston: The Mexico Years, London and New York 2004 (illustrated, p. 69).
Other prints of this image are in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York and The Sistema Nacional de Fototecas, Mexico City.
