Dec 07, 2006 - Sale 2097

Sale 2097 - Lot 497

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
"COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY'S MISSING LINK" SHEEHAN, ROBERT F. (active 1950s-60s)
Group of 7 color studies. Colorfax (the precursor of Cibachrome) prints using Gammadion film, 6 1/4x9 inches (15.8x22.8 cm.) and the reverse; 6 are matted and with a caption label on the reverse. Circa 1958

Additional Details

"Thames Tunnel" "Green vent" "Ruins at Redding Ridge" "Wrecked House" "Display Window." Untitled.

An early group of prints by Sheehan, whose work was championed by Steichen and featured in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, in 1960.

with--Robert F. Sheehan: Color Photography 1948-58. Illustrated with reproductions of Sheehan's photographs. Oblong 8vo, photo-pictorial wrappers. Middletown, CT. : Wesleyan University, 1987.