50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
Gustave Le Gray
'La Vague Brisée, Mer Méditeranée No 15', (The Breaking Wave), 1857
Lot Closed
April 22, 01:01 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Gustave Le Gray
1820 - 1884
'La Vague Brisée, Mer Méditeranée No 15', (The Breaking Wave), 1857
Albumen print from wet collodion negative, mounted to board. With the photographer's red facsimile signature stamp recto. With the 'PHOTOGRAPHIE GUSTAVE LE GRAY & Co PARIS' and the maker's blindstamps on board recto. Annotated 'No 11,706' in iron gall ink in the lower left corner and with a printed label bearing the title of the work affixed on the lower right corner of board recto.
Image 32.6 x 41.8 cm (12⅞x 16½in.);
sheet 53.5 x 68.2 cm (21 x 26⅞in.)
Eugenia Parry Janis, The Photographs of Gustave Le Gray (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1987), p. 71
Ken Jacobson, The Lovely Sea-View: A Study of the Marine Photographs Published by Gustave Le Gray, 1856-1858 (Petches Bridge: 2001), fig. 9
Sylvie Aubenas et al., Gustave Le Gray 1820-1884 (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002), fig. 144 and cat. 131
Edward Lucie-Smith, The Invented Eye: Masterpieces of Photography, 1839-1914 (New York, 1975), pl. 36
Manfred Heiting, et al., At the Still Point: Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection, Volume I (Los Angeles and Amsterdam, 1995), p. 93
Weston Naef, Photographers of Genius at the Getty (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004), pl. 15