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Margaret Bourke-White

New York 1904 – 1971 Stanford, Connecticut

Brazilian Girl, for 'American Can Company'. 1936

Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 33,8 × 24,7 cm (13 ¼ × 9 ¾ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Margaret Bourke-White. Brazilian Girl, for 'American Can Company'. 1936.

Estimate:

EUR 10,000

 

- 15,000

USD 11,600

 

- 17,400

Sold for:

11,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn 2021

The Art of Photography, Wednesday, 01.12.2021

Information

Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 33,8 × 24,7 cm (13 ¼ × 9 ¾ in.). With black ink border. Mounted to original cardboard (51,4 x 34,6 cm) with embossed border. On the reverse of the cardboard photographer's stamp: „A MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE PHOTOGRAPH“ as well as inscribed: „# B-16" in pencil.

Exh. cat.: Bourke-White. Eine Retrospektive. London, Royal College of Art; Mailand, Castello Sforzesco; Paris, Palais de Tokyo; Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum; Munich, Stadtmuseum: Frankfurt, Kunstverein, 1989/90, p. 69 (there titled: Brasilianisches Kind mit Puppe) / Sean Callahan: Margaret Bourke-White - Photographer. Boston, 1998, p. 67 (there titled: Young girl, Brazil, for Pan Am) / Exh. cat.: Margaret Bourke-White. The Photography of Design 1927-1936. Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection et al., 2003/05, p. 82, ill. 91 (there mirror-inverted)

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