Lot 113
"Philadelphia, 1969", attributed to Ray K. Metzker (Milwaukee 1931–2014 Philadelphia)
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Description
Gelatin silver print; cropped view of a parked car in front of a brick façade with two symmetrically arranged windows hung with white roller shades; high contrast, reduced to deep blacks and pointed white accents. Verso lower right inscribed "Ray K. Metzker" and numbered "15/15" (pencil). Two small crease marks at upper left sheet edge. Image dimensions 21.5 × 14.7 cm, sheet dimensions 25.2 × 20.2 cm. Metzker studied under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at the Institute of Design, Chicago (IIT), and taught at the Philadelphia College of Art from 1962; represented in the collections of, among others, MoMA New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.Condition: I - Questions about the lot?
