Oct 21, 2008 - Sale 2158

Sale 2158 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 14,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
MODOTTI, TINA (1896-1942)/VARGAS, AVA
Choice group of 4 photographs from the "Tina Modotti" portfolio. Platinum prints, from 4 1/2x3 1/2 to 9 1/2x7 1/2 inches (11.4x8.9 to 24.1x19.1 cm.), sheet size 5 3/4x4 3/4 to 10 3/4x8 3/4 inches (14.6x12.1 to 27.3x22.2 cm.), and the reverse, each with Ava Vargas's signature and edition notations 9/20, in pencil, and the "Fototeca del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia" hand stamp on verso. 1924-1927; printed 1993
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Additional Details

Three of the photographs are originally from the collection of Ava Vargas, the printer; by agent to A Private West Coast Collection. Tina Modotti: Photographs (1981), 46; Tina Modotti: Photographs (1995), 13, 22, 23, 65.