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

159 159 c BARBARA MORGAN (1900-1992) Martha Graham - Letter to the World (kick). Silver print, the image measuring 15x19 3 / 8 inches (38.1x48.8 cm.), the mount 22x28 inches (55.9x71.1 cm.), with Morgan’s signature, title, and negative date, in pencil, on mount recto, and her signature, title, negative and print dates (the latter with her initials), in ink, additional sizing notations, in pencil, and her copyright and credit hand stamp, on mount verso. 1940; printed 1975 [3,000/4,500] Formerly in the Collection of Chicago art patrons David and Sarajean Ruttenberg. Exhibited in (and illustrated in the accompanying catalogue for) Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College, January 20-May 20, 2017 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Ashland, North Carolina. 160 c ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (1894-1985) Colette, Paris. Silver print, the image measuring 10 3 / 4 x13 5 / 8 inches (27.3x34.6 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Kertész’s signature and negative date, in pencil, on verso. 1930; printed circa 1970 [2,500/3,500] Lifson, André Kertész: A Lifetime of Perception (Prentice-Hall), cover and p. 147. Huyghe and Scarpitta, André Kertész: Photographe (Musée Jacquemart-André), p. 63. 160