Live Auction 12626Modern Visions: Exceptional Photographs
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
Lot 16

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)

The Flat-Iron, 1903

Closed18 February 2016

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USD 87,500

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Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
The Flat-Iron, 1903
photogravure on Japan vellum, mounted on board
image: 12 7/8 x 6 5/8 in. (32.8 x 16.8 cm.)
sheet: 18 3/8 x 12 ½ in. (52.1 x 31.7 cm.)
mount: 20 ½ x 15 in. (52.2 x 38.1 cm.)

The artist;
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986);
Doris Bry (1921-2014), New York;
Paul Katz, New York (as agent);
The Gilman Paper Company, 1979;
Important Photographs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Including Works from the Gillman Paper Company Collection, Sotheby's, New York, February 14 & 15, 2006, lot 3;
with Babcock Galleries, New York.

Specialist note

In Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs, Sarah Greenough locates six other versions of this print in institutional collections: The Art Institute of Chicago, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. According to Greenough, Stieglitz planned to include this image in a portfolio titled Fifty Prints of New York, a project that was never realized (Key Set, p. 173).