Lot 7
  • 7

Frederick Sommer

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Frederick Sommer
  • 'ONDINE'
  • Gelatin silver print
mounted, signed, titled, and dated in pencil on the reverse, framed, the Buhl Collection label on the reverse, 1950, printed later

Provenance

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 1996

Exhibited

Palm Beach Photographic Centre, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, March 2011

Literature

Frederick Sommer at Seventy-Five: A Retrospective (California State University, Long Beach, 1980), p. 6

Frederick Sommer: Images (Center for Creative Photography, 1984), pl. 37

John Weiss, ed., Venus, Jupiter & Mars: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer, Exhibition Checklist (Delaware Art Museum, 1980), pl. 42

The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage (Yale University Press, 2005), p. 67

Condition

This print is in generally excellent condition.
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