Live Auction 12626Modern Visions: Exceptional Photographs
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
Lot 181

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)

Songs of the Sky, 1924

Closed18 February 2016

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USD 30,000

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Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
Songs of the Sky, 1924
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on card, mounted on board
image/sheet/flush mount: 3 5/8 x 4 ½ in. (9.2 x 11.5 cm.)
mount: 13 x 10 5/8 in. (33 x 27 cm.)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York;
Sotheby's New York, October 22, 2000, lot 46.

Specialist note

In Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs, Sarah Greenough locates eleven other prints of this image, including institutional collections such as The Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.