Mrs. Fiene by Lachaise
1927
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 10.6 × 8.5 cm (4 3/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
mount: 31.9 × 25.3 cm (12 9/16 × 9 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.688
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Stieglitz Estate Number
201A
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Key Set Number
1180
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1180.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, bottom right verso, in graphite: Alfred Stieglitz; bottom left verso, in graphite: Mrs. Fiene by Lachaise / 1926 / Exhibition in Room 303 — 1926
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 201A
Wikidata ID
Q64035493
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The bronze portrait head of Mrs. Fiene was included in Gaston Lachaise’s exhibition at the Intimate Gallery from 9 March to 14 April 1927. A portrait photographer, Jeanette Ettarre Fiene, and her husband Ernest were friends of Lachaise and visited him often at his home in Georgetown, Maine.
Shortly after Lachaise’s exhibition closed at the Intimate Gallery, Stieglitz wrote to the sculptor, noting that he had developed “the snaps” of Mrs. Fiene (Stieglitz to Gaston Lachaise, 25 June 1927, AAA).