LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Platinum or palladium print

Measurements:

8.39 in. (21.30 cm.) (height) by 7.36 in. (18.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Vittorio Vidali's 'Commander of the Fifth Regiment' stamp, reduction and other annotations in unidentified hands in pencil on the verso.

Exhibited:

Tina Modotti: Photographs, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 16 September - 26 November 1995, and traveling to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through 1996 Tina Modotti & Edward Weston: The Mexico Years, Barbican Centre, London, 29 April - 1 August 2004 Mexico as Muse: Tina Modotti and Edward Weston, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2 September 2006 - 2 January 2007 Collected, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, 2 May 2016 - 31 January 2017

Literature:

Lowe, Tina Modotti: Photographs, pl. 66 (this print) Lowe, Tina Modotti & Edward Weston: The Mexico Years, pl. 58 (this print) Pier 24 Photography, Collected, p. 112 (this print) Mexican Folkways, August-September 1926 Schultz, et al., Tina Modotti: Photographien & Dokumente, p. 94 Hooks, Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary, p. 122 Hooks, Tina Modotti, pl. 15 Agostinis, Tina Modotti: Gli Anni Luminosi, p. 107 Albers, Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti, n.p. Robert Miller and Spencer Throckmorton, Tina Modotti, Photographs, pl. 19 Aperture Masters of Photography: Tina Modotti, p. 63 Throckmorton Fine Art, Tina Modotti and Edward Weston: Mexican Years, pl. 29

Provenance:

From the photographer to Vittorio Vidali By descent to his son Carlos Vidali Sotheby's, New York, 17 April 1991, lot 211 Page Imageworks, San Francisco, as agent