Lot 524: GEORGE H. SEELEY (1880-1955)

GEORGE H. SEELEY (1880-1955)
The Artist, 1911
gum-bichromate exhibition print
signed and dated in stylus (on the recto); signed, titled, dated in ink, small label, stamped in Japanese, bearing printed number '568' and decorative exhibition label with printed caption 'Selected for The Fourth International Photographic Salon of Japan under the auspices of The All Japan Societies in the Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo and Osaka, 1930' affixed (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
16¾ x 13 5/8in. (34.5 x 42.5cm.)

Stieglitz, ed., Camera Work, No. 29, 1910; Dimock and Hardy, Intimations & Imaginings: The Photographs of George H. Seeley, The Berkshire Museum, 1986, cat. no. 34, p. 33, photogravure

From the Estate of George Seeley;
With Robert Miller Gallery, New York; acquired 1980s

'The work of Mr. Seeley evinces a poetic temperament and a very great imaginative sense. In all instances is his composition most pleasing...I cannot help but feeling that he is possibly the greatest American pictorialist today.' (Roland Rood, American Amateur Photographer)