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119                         »Once upon a time was Kate.
                                            SAM HASKINS                 She was white as flowers, warm
                                            (1926–2009)                 as sun-shine, wild as whiskey and
                                                                        swinging like a lamp.« — Haskins
                                            ›Cowboy Kate‹,              and his wife Alida dreamt up the
                                            Montage, 1970s              spirited character of Cowboy
                                                                        Kate, after a model playfully
                                            Vintage silver print        posed in Haskins’ studio with
                                            31 × 25,5 cm (12.2 × 10 in)   her own black suede hat. The
                                            Annotated in an unidentified   present print comes from the
                                            hand in pencil on the reverse  Pentax Gallery in Tokyo. Haskins
                                            PROVENANCE                  had a long relationship with the
                                            Pentax Gallery, Tokyo       camera company, their gallery in
                                                                        Tokyo organized several of his
                                            * € 2.000 / € 4.000–5.000   exhibitions.


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