SISKIND AARON (1903 1991) Hoboken

Sale 2288 - Lot 84

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Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000

SISKIND, AARON (1903-1991)
"Hoboken." Silver print, 9 3/8x7 1/2 inches (23.8x19.1 cm.), with Siskind's hand stamp and the title and date 1950, in ink, on verso. 1950

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From the Collection of Victor Schrager; acquired directly from the photographer circa 1976.
Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors, 86.
Aaron Siskind 100, unpaginated.
Both publications date this image to 1948. Carl Chiarenza's text in Pleasure and Terrors relates the picture to Chicago images made the same year, which were also graphically harsh and emotive. "Siskind," the essay states, "is said to have described one of the Chicago pictures as 'the underground hell of never-gratified desire.'" Related in many ways to the gesture painters of the same period (Pollock, de Kooning, Tworkov, and Klein), Siskind's photographs reveal extreme sensitivity and repressed expression.