Lee Friedlander 'NYC' (Father Duffy, Times Square, New York City)

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Lee Friedlander
b. 1934
'NYC' (Father Duffy, Times Square, New York City)

gelatin silver print, signed, titled and dated and with the photographer's '44 South Mountain Rd., New City, N.Y.' studio stamp on the reverse, framed
image: 8½ by 12⅞ in. (21.6 by 32.7 cm.)
frame: 16¼ by 20¼ in. (41.3 by 51.4 cm.)
Executed in 1974, printed in the 1980s.

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Condition Report:
Please note the colors and shades in the online catalogue illustration may vary depending on screen settings.

This print is in generally excellent condition. Visible under raking light is a tiny handling crease in the upper right quadrant that does not appear to break the emulsion.

On the reverse, 'LF93021' and '158-5' is written in pencil in an unidentified hand. There are hinge remnants and faint blue ink deposits on the reverse.

Provenance:
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York

Phillips de Pury & Co., New York, 25 April 2007, Sale 40107, Lot 135

Acquired from the above by the present owner