Live Auction 2767the deLIGHTed eye: Modernist Masterworks from a Private Collection
TINA MODOTTI (1896-1942)
Lot 10

TINA MODOTTI (1896-1942)

Untitled (Texture and Shadow), 1924-1926

Closed4 April 2013

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USD 363,750

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TINA MODOTTI (1896-1942)
Untitled (Texture and Shadow), 1924-1926
palladium print
various notations in an unknown hand in pencil/ink and 'Creative Art, 66 Fifth Avenue, N.Y.' credit stamp (on the verso)
image/sheet: 9½ x 7¼in. (24.1 x 18.4cm.)

From the artist;
to Mildred Constantine;
with Ex Libris, New York

Specialist note

This print of Texture and Shadow is believed to be the only one in private hands. The only other known print is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Neither print was titled by Modotti, but her close friend the journalist Carleton Beals used this title when he published the image in 1929.
Dated between 1924 and 1926, it is the purest of Modotti's abstractions, a stunning juxtaposition of darkness, light and fabric.