LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Platinum or palladium print

Measurements:

7.52 in. (19.10 cm.) (height) by 8.50 in. (21.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Vittorio Vidalis Commander of the Fifth Regiment stamp on the verso; signed in pencil and the Fifth Regiment stamp on the reverse of the repurposed mount

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. 22 (this print) Lowe, Tina Modotti & Edward Weston: The Mexico Years, pl. 26 (this print) Pier 24 Photography, Collected, p. 112 (this print) Constantine, Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life, p. 118 Schultz, et al., Tina Modotti: Photographien & Dokumente, p. 36 Hooks, Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary, title page and p. VIII Hooks, Tina Modotti, pl. 8 Sullivan, Women Photographers, pl. 44

Provenance:

From the photographer to Vittorio Vidali By descent to his son Carlos Vidali Sotheby's, New York, 17 April 1991, lot 212 Page Imageworks, San Francisco, as agent