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Quigley, Edward W.
(1898-1977)Photogram

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts
Auktionsdatum 5.6.2024

Photogram. Circa 1931. Vintage unique ferrotyped gelatin silver print. 36 x 26,5 cm. Mounted along upper edge to mat.

Known for his experimental photographic work with light in the 1930s, the American modernist Edward Quigley started photographing at the young age of twelve. He joined the Photographic Society of Philadelphia in 1929, and opened his own studio a year later. He supported himself with innovative advertising and editorial work published regularly in magazines such as U.S. Camera and Photographie, while winning prizes in numerous salons for his experimental light abstractions, captured with the aid of prisms and lenses. Today, photographs by Edward Quigley are in the permanent collections of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. – Some light mirroring in upper portion, more visible at an angle, light dents in lower edge, light crease in upper edge near right, traces of previous mounting on the verso, otherwise in very good condition.

Provenance: Christie's. Light, Volume and Form: Photographs from the Shalom Shpilman Collection, May 24-June 2, 2016, lot 76.