la Scala

	Alfred Eisenstaedt
Title	Premier at la Scala, Milan
Medium	gelatin silver print
Size	17.2 x 12.8 in. / 43.8 x 32.4 cm.
Year	1933 -
Printing/ Casting	Later Imp
Description	signed by the photographer and numbered '164/250' in an unidentified hand in ink in the margin, credited, titled, dated, and annotated in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse, matted, 1933, printed later, no. 164 in an edition of 250 (Remembrances, p. 13;Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt, p. 39)
Edition	164/250
Misc.	Signed
Sale Of	Sotheby's New York: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 [Lot 139] Photographs
Estimate	8,000 - 12,000 US$
Sold For	BOUGHT IN
Provenance	Gift of the photographer to Frank Zachary,circa2001 By descent to the present owner
Exhibition	Pittsfield, Massachusetts, The Berkshire Museum,Intimations & Imaginings; The Photographs of George H. Seeley, May - June 1986; and traveling to Smith College Museum of Art; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana; and the Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
Literature	Other prints of this image: Archibald MacLeish,Land of the Free(New York, 1938), p. 5. Dorothea Lange(The Museum of Modern Art, 1966, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 32 Milton Meltzer,Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life(New York, 1978), p. 218 Therese Thau Heyman, Sandra S. Phillips, and John Szarkowski,Dorothea Lange: American Photographs(San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1994, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 46 Ben Maddow,Faces: A Narrative History of the Portrait in Photography(Boston, 1977), pp. 324-5 Karin Becker Ohrn,Dorothea Lange and the Documentary Tradition(Louisiana State University Press, 1980), pl. 29 James C. Anderson, ed.,Roy Stryker: The Humane Propagandist, Photographic Archives(University of Louisville, 1977), p. 26 Andrea Fisher,Let Us Now Praise Famous Women(London, 1987), pp. 22 and 136

Public Lot Details - Alfred Eisenstaedt