Online Auction 19790The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection
HARRY CALLAHAN (1912–1999)
Lot 50

HARRY CALLAHAN (1912–1999)

Eleanor, Chicago, 1949

Closed14 October 2020

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USD 2,500

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HARRY CALLAHAN (1912–1999)
Eleanor, Chicago, 1949
gelatin silver print, printed 1980
signed in pencil (recto); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels (frame backing board)
image: 9 ¾ x 9 1/8 in. (24.8 x 23.2 cm.)
sheet: 11 7/8 x 11 in. (29.8 x 27.9 cm.)

Light Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

'Harry Callahan’s Eleanor, Chicago is the Mona Lisa of post-World War II photography and an archetypal collaboration between artist and muse, his wife. The detail is exquisite, the tendril-like hair drifting in the water, the elusive nipple under water, the absolutely serene expression.' – W.M. Hunt

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