LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gelatin silver print

Measurements:

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

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated in pencil on the mount

Literature:

Mexican Folkways, August - September 1926. Reinhard Schultz, et al. , Tina Modotti: Photographien & Dokumente(Berlin: Sozialarchiv, 1989),p. 94. Valentina Agostinis,Tina Modotti: Gli Anni Luminosi(Pordenone, 1992), p. 107. Margaret Hooks,Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary(London, 1993), p. 122. Robert Miller and Spencer Throckmorton,Tina Modotti, Photographs(New York, 1997), pl. 19. Sarah M. Lowe,Tina Modotti: Photographs(New York, 1998), pl. 66. Aperture Masters of Photography: Tina Modotti(New York, 1999),p. 63. Tina Modotti and Edward Weston: Mexican Years(Throckmorton Fine Art, 1999), pl. 29. Patricia Albers,Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti(New York, 1999), unpaginated

Provenance:

Gift of the photographer to Alexandra Kollontai, Soviet foreign minister to Mexico, 1927. To herdescendants. Sotheby's New York, 3 October 2001, Sale 7702, Lot 150