Sale 2458 - Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, October 19, 2017

157 157 c LEO MATIZ (1917-1998) Frida Kahlo * Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Silver prints (2), the images measuring 10 inches (25.4 cm.) square, and smaller, the sheets 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), the larger with the Fundación Leo Matiz blind stamp, on recto, and Matiz’s signature and numeric notation 4/37, in pencil, on verso; the smaller with Matiz’s signature, negative date, and the notation Mexico, in ink, on verso. 1945-46; printed circa 1990 [1,500/2,500] From RoGallery, NewYork, NewYork; to a Private Collector, in 2008. 158 c EDWARD STEICHEN (1879-1973) Rosa Covarrubias. Silver print, the image measuring 10x7 7 / 8 inches (25.4x20 cm.), the mount 13 7 / 8 x11 inches (35.2x27.9 cm.), with Steichen’s Photograph by Steichen hand stamp on mount verso. Circa 1923 [6,000/9,000] The beautiful and talented Rosa Rolande was a prominent dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies. In 1924 she married Miguel Covarrubias, the renowned Mexican painter, caricaturist, and art historian, who became a successful set and theatre designer. Together the two were an internationally sought after couple whose circle of friends included Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, the philanthropist and art collector Nelson Rockefeller, the playwright Eugene O’Neill, as well as Tina Modotti and Edward Weston. 158