Andreas Feininger

("The Elegance and Flair of This Broken Shell Evokes in My Mind the Winged Victory of Samothrace")

1982

A single tall, sculptural mushroom with a torn cap rising from rocky ground.
A single tall, sculptural mushroom with a torn cap rising from rocky ground.

Andreas Feininger, ("The Elegance and Flair of This Broken Shell Evokes in My Mind the Winged Victory of Samothrace"), 1982. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 8 1/2 × 7 3/4 in. (21.6 × 19.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Feininger Family 2001.124. © Estate of Andreas Feininger

2005:
©Courtesy of Bonni Benrubi Gallery

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Not on view

Date
1982

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/2 × 7 3/4 in. (21.6 × 19.7 cm)

Accession number
2001.124

Credit line
Gift of the Feininger Family

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of Andreas Feininger

2005:
©Courtesy of Bonni Benrubi Gallery

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