Live Auction 12626Modern Visions: Exceptional Photographs
Edward Steichen (1879-1973)
Lot 242

Edward Steichen (1879-1973)

The Painter Louis Mayer, 1901

Closed18 February 2016

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USD 6,875

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Edward Steichen (1879-1973)
The Painter Louis Mayer, 1901
platinum print, mounted on original green paper, mounted on original dark grey paper
signed with monogram insignia in orange crayon (mount, recto); signed and inscribed 'a portrait of our friend Louis Mayer' in ink (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 4 1/4 x 3 in. (10.9 x 7.7 cm.)
green paper mount: 4 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. (11.5 x 8.3 cm.)
tertiary mount: 11 5/8 x 9 1/4 in. (29.6 x 23.6 cm.)

The Collection of Sandro Mayer, son of Louis Mayer;
Gifted from the above to The Museum of Modern Art, New York;
Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, Sotheby's, New York, April 25, 2001, lot 105;
Acquired at the above sale through agent.

Specialist note

Louis Mayer (1869-1969) was a noted American painter and sculptor and early friend of Steichen. He founded the Society of Milwaukee Artists in 1900, and later moved to Fishkill, New York, along the Hudson River. He is best known for his portrait busts, especially of Lincoln (about whom he shared a fascination with Steichen as well as with Steichen’s brother-in-law, the celebrated poet Carl Sandburg), and of his friend Albert Schweitzer.