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Wore Platform Shoes-Metropolitan Opera Opening

about 1940

2009.209

Deaccessioned 10.25.2017

Recieving Party: Hindman Auctioneers

Transfer Notes

Transferred to Leslie Hindman Auctioneers; Sold at the Post War and Contemporary Art Fine Prints Sale 23 May 2018 (lot 156)


Wilma Wilcox, New York, New York [1903-1993]; Acquired by her niece, Mary Ellen Kessler, Indianapolis in 1993. Purchased by (Steve H. Nowlin, Indianapolis) in 2003. Purchased by Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2009.


Artwork Details

Photographer
Creation Date
about 1940
Materials
gelatin silver print
Object Types
photographs, black-and-white prints {photographs}
Dimensions

12-1/2 x 10-5/8 in.

Mark Description

stamped, verso, c.: PLEASE CREDIT/WEEGEE/FROM/PHOTO-REPRESENTATIVES inscribed in pencil, l.c.: 3808/Opening at the Metropolitan Opera Company

Previous Accession Number
2009.209
Previous Credit Line

Caroline Marmon Fesler Fund, Gift of the Alliance of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Roger G. Wolcott Fund, Nancy Foxwell Neuberger Acquisition Endowment Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Van Vorhees Art Fund, Cecil F. Head Art Fund, James V. Sweetser Fund

Copyright
© Weegee/International Center of Photography/Getty Images
Collection

Prints, Drawings, and Photographs


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