Mar 19, 2015 - Sale 2376

Sale 2376 - Lot 222

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
"[FOR] THE FIRST TIME IN 55 YEARS, I AM CAMERALESS" STIEGLITZ, ALFRED. Group of 5 Autograph Letters Signed, "Stieglitz," to Henwar Rodakiewicz, on various topics including Georgia O'Keeffe, illness, memories, and work. Together 12 pages, 4to or 8vo; generally good condition. Vp, 1935-41

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29 December 1935: ". . . Georgia showed me the letter you wrote her & I showed her the one I received. She is in great shape. Her exhibition opens on Jan 4th & will be a very fine one. Her things are full of a new kind of radiancy--full of light. I hope she remains well. She has certainly come through a long siege. . . ."
22 July 1938: ". . . Here I am on The Hill. The first time in 55 years I am cameraless. Had hoped to bring some negatives but cut that idea out feeling that even printing would take too great a toll from me. And I must be ready for The Place when the inner bell rings . . . . Georgia is here since Monday. . . . [S]he is incapacitated because of an obstreperous left arm. . . ."
16 September 1941: ". . . Georgia will probably remain in New Mexico until November. So she wrote in her last letter. . . ."