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Edward Jean Steichen

The Lotus Screen, S.S.S.

Auction Closed

April 20, 07:56 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Edward Jean Steichen

1879 - 1973

The Lotus Screen, S.S.S.


oil on canvas

25 x 24 in. (63.5 x 61 cm.)

Executed in 1909.

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the artist)
Sotheby's New York, May 21, 2016, lot 24 (consigned by the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 9378 (acquired from the above)
James Huneker, New York Sun, January 23, 1910
Jonathan Greed, ed., Camera Work: A Critical Anthology, Millerton, New York, 1973, p. 239
William Innes Homer, "Eduard Steichen as Painter and Photographer, 1897-1908," American Art Journal, vol. 6, issue 2, November 1974, p. 54
Penelope Niven, Steichen: A Biography, New York, 1997, p. 331
New York, Montross Gallery, 1910
New York, 291 Gallery, The Younger American Painters, 1910