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Lot 65: ALMA  LAVENSON

Est: $7,000 USD - $10,000 USDSold:
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USApril 03, 2012

Item Overview

Description

1897-1989
'FOOD  PRODUCTS'  (VIRGINIA  CITY)
mounted,  signed  and  with  cropping  notations  in  pencil  on  the  mount,  titled  and  dated  in  ink,  stamped,  and  with  the  photographer's  '58  Wildwood  Gardens,  Piedmont,  California'  studio  label  and  a  'San  Francisco  Society  of  Women  Artists'  exhibition  label,  signed  and  annotated  in  ink,  on  the  reverse,  1939  (A  Pageant  of  Photography,  1940,  unpaginated;  Alma  Lavenson  Photographs,  p.  75)
7¼  by  9½  in.  (18.4  by  24.1  cm.)

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

San Francisco Museum of [Modern] Art, 14th Annual Exhibition, San Francisco Society of Women Artists, November - December 1939

Treasure Island, San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, A Pageant of Photography: California Women Photographers, May - September 1940

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Alma Lavenson Photographs, March - April 1988

Provenance

The collection of the photographer; by descent to her family

Auction Details

Photographs

by
Sotheby's
April 03, 2012, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US