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Frederick Sommer 1905-1999
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description
- Frederick Sommer
- COLORADO RIVER LANDSCAPE
mounted, numbered '542' in an unidentified hand in pencil on the mount, 1942, printed no later than 1949
Provenance
Christian Zervos Estate/Librairie Cahiers d'Art
Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Literature
Another print of this image:
The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage (New Haven, 2005), p. 85
Catalogue Note
This photograph originally comes from the collection of Christian Zervos, editor of the French journal, Cahiers d'Art. In 1950, Frederick Sommer's friend, painter Max Ernst, showed a group of Sommer's photographs and drawings to Zervos that had originally been submitted to Dieter Wyss for consideration in Der Surrealismus, published in 1950. Zervos used several of the works in Cahiers d'Art.