The Alfred Stieglitz Collection
  • Recto of print
  • Verso of print

Heinrich Kühn (Austrian, born Germany, 1866–1944)

Seated Woman Untying Slipper, c. 1910

Platinum print ; 39.2 x 29.6 cm (image); 44.2 x 32.7 cm (paper)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.869

 

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