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RUTH ORKIN (1921-1985)
Lot 14 ANOTHER PROPERTY

Ruth was striding ahead toward the Piazza. She turned, and saw me walking through a gauntlet of men. It was a situation she had long imagined. She shot a picture and shouted: 'Jinx, go back and step off that curb again.'

I did; she shot; and on the second take photographed the 'American Girl in Florence'.

JINX ALLEN, the 'American Girl' (now known as Ninalee Craig)

RUTH ORKIN (1921-1985)

American Girl in Italy, Florence, 1951

Closed13 November 2007

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GBP 29,300

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RUTH ORKIN (1921-1985)
American Girl in Italy, Florence, 1951
gelatin silver print
signed with copyright insignia, titled, dated and annotated 'From The Metropolitan Museum of Art' in pencil on mount
13 x 19½in. (33 x 49.5cm.)

From the artist;
to a private collection, New York;
acquired by present owner.