Oct 19, 2017 - Sale 2458

Sale 2458 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
EDWARD STEICHEN (1879-1973)
Rosa Covarrubias. Silver print, the image measuring 10x7 7/8 inches (25.4x20 cm.), the mount 13 7/8x11 inches (35.2x27.9 cm.), with Steichen's Photograph by Steichen hand stamp on mount verso. Circa 1923
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From the Estate of Rosa Covarrubias; to Phillips, NY [April 16, 2010, lot 217]; to the Present Owner.

The beautiful and talented Rosa Rolande was a prominent dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies. In 1924 she married Miguel Covarrubias, the renowned Mexican painter, caricaturist, and art historian, who became a successful set and theatre designer. Together the two were an internationally sought after couple whose circle of friends included Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, the philanthropist and art collector Nelson Rockefeller, the playwright Eugene O'Neill, as well as Tina Modotti and Edward Weston.


Steichen, Steichen's Legacy: Photographs, 1895-1973, pl. 76 for a variant.