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Lot 22: Soichi Sunami: Julia Evergood, 1931, silver print

Est: $800 USD - $1,600 USDPassed
The Photo ReviewPhiladelphia, PA, USOctober 28, 2017

Item Overview

Description

Julia Evergood, 1931, silver print, photographer's stamp verso; autographed recto: "To dear Cressie, With Love, Julia Evergood"; inscribed verso: "March 23, 1941. This represents one of Julie's proud moments when she danced a solo ballet first number on the program before the President of France at Sorbonne, Paris, in a memorial to Pavlova the world's greatest Russian Ballerina, given one month after her death in April 1941, by one of her latest dancing partners, M. Alexander Volinine.", Image size: 9"x7"; Sheet Size: 9"x7"

Dimensions

9"x7"

Artist or Maker

Medium

silver print

Date

1931

Provenance

Soichi Sunami was a modernist photographer, influenced by the pictorialist movement, and best known for his portraits of early modern dancers, including Ruth St. Denis, Agnes De Mille, Helen Tamiris, and Martha Graham, with whom he maintained an extended artistic collaboration. Born in Japan, in 1885, he emigrated to the United States in 1905. In 1907 he arrived in Seattle, where he worked for photographer Ella E. McBride, who was a fellow member of the Seattle Camera Club (an association largely made up of Japanese-American immigrant photographers). By 1922 he had moved to New York City where he briefly worked for photographer Nickolas Muray before enrolling at the Art Students League, alongside classmate Alexander Calder, under the primary tutelage of Ashcan painter John Sloan. For nearly forty years (from 1930 until 1968) he was the official staff photographer at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), a position that helped him avoid internment during World War II.

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Auction Details

The Photo Review Benefit Auction 2017

by
The Photo Review
October 28, 2017, 07:15 PM EST

Caplan Studio Theater, Terra Hall, UArts 211 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, US

Terms

Buyer's Premium

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