Feb 19, 2015 - Sale 2374

Sale 2374 - Lot 32

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
KELTY, EDWARD J. (1888-1967)
"Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey (Combined) Circus" (clowns behind Madison Square Garden). Cyanotype, 7 3/8x9 1/4 inches (23.8x23.5 cm); with International Center of Photography and Bonni Benrubi labels on frame verso. Circa 1925
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From the Collection of Alan Siegel.

New Yorker Alan Siegel's photographic collection can be attributed to "orderly perseverance, a modicum of patience, and a reasonable supply of capital." Siegel is an astute designer who is highly conscious of the idea of the 'image' in whatever form he can find it. Siegel has spent more than 3 decades, collaborating with his wife and daughter, gathering photographs, and credits his collection with stimulating previously dormant creative urges and a passion for the visual arts. He traces the success of his career in communications and design to a love for the medium, and credits photography with enriching his life by putting him in contact with hundreds of fascinating and creative people.

Photographs from Siegel's collection have been exhibited in museums around the globe, with a number of his Kelty images as highlights in the ICP retrospective "Step Right This Way" in 2002, which marked the first museum exhibition of Kelty's traveling circus photographs.

This print has been exhibited at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University as well as the International Center for Photography.

One Man's Eye: Photographs from the Alan Siegel Collection, pp. 164-65.