Germaine Krull

Selected Images (The Eiffel Tower, including a sketch by Robert Delaunay)

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April 13, 07:37 PM GMT

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12,000 - 18,000 USD

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Germaine Krull

1897 - 1985

Selected Images (The Eiffel Tower, including a sketch by Robert Delaunay)

2 ferrotyped gelatin silver prints, one with Robert Delaunay's preparatory sketch of the Eiffel Tower in pencil for Air, fer et eau (Air, iron, and water), and each with the photographer's copyright stamp on the reverse, circa 1928 (2)

images: each approximately 9 ½ by 7 in. (24.1 by 17.8 cm.)

The photographer to Robert and Sonia Delaunay

cf. Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century (New York, 2001), pp. 46-47

cf. Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Vol. I (London, 2004), p. 95

Michel Frizot, Germaine Krull (Paris: Jeu de Paume, 2015), pp. 51-54