Feb 15, 2024 - Sale 2659

Sale 2659 - Lot 42

Price Realized: $ 20,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
EDWARD STEICHEN (1879-1973)
Backbone and Ribs of a Sunflower. Toned silver print, the image measuring 7⅝x9⅝ inches (19.4x24.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Steichen's notation "did series on sunflower from birth to death & seed pod final" in pencil on verso. 1920; printed circa 1926

Provenance: From the Collection of Dr. James and Debra Pearl

Reproduced: Edward Steichen, A Life in Photography (New York: Doubleday & Co.), pl. 78