Jan 30, 2025 - Sale 2692

Sale 2692 - Lot 58

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

PETER SEKAER (1901 - 1950)


Election Posters, 10th Avenue, New York. 1935; printed later.
Silver print, the image measuring 190x225 mm; 7½x8⅞ inches, the sheet slightly lager, with Christina Sekaer's (the photographer's daughter) signature and inscription "This is an archival quality contemporary print printed by Edmund Yankov from the negative by Peter Sekaer c. 1935 unlimited edition" in pencil on verso.

Provenance The Estate of Peter Sekaer; to a Private Collector; to the Present Owner

Reproduced
Tom Maloney, ed. U.S. Camera Annual (1939), p. 182
Allison N. Kemmerer, Peter Sekaer American Pictures (Addison Gallery & Howard Greenberg Gallery, 1999), p. 3
John T. Hill, Signs of Life: Photographs by Peter Sekaer (High Museum of Art with Steidl, 2010), pl. 14