Oct 21, 2008 - Sale 2158

Sale 2158 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 3,675
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
MODOTTI, TINA (1896-1942)
"Marionette." Silver print, 7 1/2x7 3/4 inches (19.1x19.7 cm.), with the "Photographs-Tina Modotti, Mexico D.F." hand stamp on verso. Circa 1929
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From A Private West Coast Collection.
Modotti created an extensive series of photographs involving hands and marionettes made by Louis Bunin, a young artist from Chicago who had come to Mexico to study with Diego Rivera. Bunin was entranced with the puppet show as a means by which to convey socio-political messages, and staged many such shows during the tumultuous period he lived in Mexico.