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Lee Miller — Surgical Gloves Are Sterilised and Dried on Stands, Churchill Hospital, Oxford
Lee Miller

Surgical Gloves Are Sterilised and Dried on Stands, Churchill Hospital, Oxford

Lee Miller's 'Surgical Gloves Are Sterilised and Dried on Stands, Churchill Hospital, Oxford' is a platinum-palladium print documenting wartime hospital procedures. Originally photographed in 1943, this edition was printed posthumously in 2022 and includes archival documentation and printer's marks.

Medium
platinum-palladium print, edition '1/10' in pencil and with The Lee Miller Archive and the printer's blindstamps in the margin, framed, 1943, printed posthumously in 2022; accompanied by half of the internegative used to produce this print mounted between acrylic (2)

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May 13, 2022

Estimate: $4,000$6,000

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Lee Miller, Surgical Gloves Are Sterilised and Dried on Stands, Churchill Hospital, Oxford

Lee Miller's 'Surgical Gloves Are Sterilised and Dried on Stands, Churchill Hospital, Oxford' is a platinum-palladium print documenting wartime hospital procedures. Originally photographed in 1943, this edition was printed posthumously in 2022 and includes archival documentation and printer's marks.

Medium
platinum-palladium print, edition '1/10' in pencil and with The Lee Miller Archive and the printer's blindstamps in the margin, framed, 1943, printed posthumously in 2022; accompanied by half of the internegative used to produce this print mounted between acrylic (2)
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Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

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Monochrome, Platinum-Palladium Print, Twentieth Century, Documentary, Photograph, Historical, Medical, British, Still Life, Hospital

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Art Institute of Chicago