Frederick Sommer 1905-1999

mounted, signed, titled, and dated (twice) by the photographer in pencil on the reverse, matted, framed, 1943, printed in the 1970s

Collection of Harold and Frances Jones

Christie's New York, 9 October 1997, Sale 8748, Lot 352

Acquired by Nancy Richardson from the above

Other prints of this image:

Leland Rice, Constance Glenn, and Jane K. Bledsoe, Frederick Sommer at Seventy-Five: A Retrospective (California State University, Long Beach, 1980, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 48

Sommer: Images (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1980), pl. 29

John Weiss, ed., Venus, Jupiter & Mars: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer (Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum, 1980, in conjunction with the exhibition), fig. 13

Keith F. Davis, The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage (Prescott and New Haven, 2005), p. 31

Aperture 10:4, 1962, p. 146

This luminous photograph, on paper with a surface sheen, is in generally excellent condition. It is mounted on white board.
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As of this writing, the Frederick Sommer Foundation records no more than 15 prints of this image.