Martha Graham Erick Hawkins Cave Heart Dance Set Isamu Noguchi c1940s Photo For Sale

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Premier CollectionEST. 1998 Martha Graham Erick Hawkins Cave Heart Dance Set Isamu Noguchi c1940s Photo

This is a silver gelatin photograph that is unmounted and is 10 x 8 inches (254x203mm).

It shows a male dancer, identified as Erick Hawkins, in a dynamic pose with his arms raised and leaning backwards. He is wearing a dark, strappy top and shorts, and is barefoot on a wooden floor. Behind him stands a female dancer, identified as Martha Graham, who is mostly concealed within a tall, dark, draped fabric structure with only her face visible. The setting includes a minimalist sculptural element on the stage.

The reverse has handwritten text in blue ink reading 'Martha Graham and Erick Hawkins in "Cave of the Heart"'. Below this, it states 'Set by Isamu Noguchi' and 'Music by Samuel Barber'.

This photograph comes from a privately curated collection assembled over more than fifty years by an experienced collector. The images were individually sourced from galleries, dealers, sales, and other collections, with a consistent focus on strong composition, atmosphere, and historical interest.

Each photograph offered has been selected on its own merits from that wider collection. The result is a group of images that are both individually compelling and part of a coherent, carefully built body of work. For collectors, this offers an opportunity to acquire materialselected by adiscerning eye, whether to strengthen an existing collection or to begin a new one.

This collection is being dispersed in stages, with several hundred additional photographs being listed each month.

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