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2139R

Lewis W. Hine

Oshkosh/Wisconsin 1874 – 1940 Hastings-on-Hudson/New York

An Albanian woman from Italy at Ellis Island. 1905

Early gelatin silver contact print. 17 × 12 cm (17,8 × 12,6 cm) (6 ¾ × 4 ¾ in. (7 × 5 in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Lewis W. Hine. An Albanian woman from Italy at Ellis Island. 1905.

Estimate:

EUR 2,000

 

- 3,000

USD 2,150

 

- 3,230

Sold for:

2,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2020

Photography, Thursday, 09.07.2020

Information

Early gelatin silver contact print. 17 × 12 cm (17,8 × 12,6 cm) (6 ¾ × 4 ¾ in. (7 × 5 in.)). In the image upper and lower left numbered in the glass negative. On the reverse inscribed in pencil by various hands. With slight oxidation mottling.

Formerly Collection Allan Rubenstein

U.P. Camera Magazine, no. 2 (January–February), 1939, p. 62 (detail) / Michael Torosian (ed.): Lewis Hine. Ellis Iceland. Toronto 1995, p. 21 / Exh. Cat.: Lewis Hine. Die Kamera als Zeuge. Passionate Journey. Photographs 1905-1937. Cologne, Kodak-Kulturprogramm zur Photokina 1996, p. 37 (there titled and dated: portrait of an immigrant, Ellis Iceland, New York, ca. 1915) / Exh. Cat.: Lewis Hine de la collection de la George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film. Paris, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson; Madrid, Fundación MAPFRE; Rotterdam, Nederlands Fotomuseum, 2011/13, p. 37, 38 (detail) and p. 45 (there titled: Immigrante italienne venue d'Albanie)

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