50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
'Negative #30 "Jack Rabbit"'
Lot Closed
April 21, 02:25 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Frederick Sommer
1905 - 1999
'Negative #30 "Jack Rabbit"'
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed, titled, and dated in pencil on the reverse, 1938
image: 7 ⅝ by 9 ½ in. (19.4 by 25.1 cm.)
By descent to the present owner
Frederick Sommer (Philadelphia College of Art, 1968), p. 11
John Weiss, ed., Venus, Jupiter & Mars: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer (Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum, 1980), pl. 15
John Weiss, ed., Exhibition Checklist, A Supplement to Venus, Jupiter & Mars: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer (Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum, 1980), fig. 4
Sommer: Images (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1984), pl. 24
Keith F. Davis, The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage (Prescott and New Haven, 2005), p. 51