24th May, 2019 17:00

OstLicht Photo Auction Spring 2019

 
  Lot 59
 

CHARLES R. SHEELER (1883–1965)
Church Street EL, 1933

Sold for €2,800


Lot details

Start price: €2.800

Estimate: € 4.500–5.500

Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1940s

15,6 x 18,3 cm

The Downtown Gallery's archive stamp with credit and title on the reverse, annotated most likely by the photographer in ink on the reverse, silver print after a painting of the same title created in 1922 (oil on canvas), in 1931 Sheeler had his first solo exhibition at Downtown Gallery and he begins his exclusive affiliation with the gallery

LITERATURE The Photography of Charles Sheeler. American Modernist, Boston / New York / London 2002, p. 121.