Photographs

Frederick Sommer

'Negative #74' (Chicken Parts)

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April 7, 05:16 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Frederick Sommer

1905 - 1999

'Negative #74' (Chicken Parts)

gelatin silver print, mounted, signed, titled, and dated in pencil on the reverse, 1939

image: 9 ½ by 7 ⅝ in. (24.1 by 19.4 cm.)

Collection of Charles and Florence Tracy, Prescott, Arizona

By descent to the present owner

Frederick Sommer, 'Frederick Sommer: 1939-1962 Photographs,' Aperture 10:4, January 1962, unpaginated

Sommer: Images (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1984), pl. 53

Van Deren Coke and Diana C. Dupont, Photography: A Facet of Modernism, Photographs from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1986), pl. 32

Douglas R. Nickel, Picturing Modernity: Highlights from the Photography Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1998). pl. 28

Keith F. Davis, The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage (Prescott and New Haven, 2005), p. 33

The Photographs of Frederick Sommer: A Centennial Tribute (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005), unpaginated

Ann Thomas, Modernist Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2007), fig. 64.1