Modern Discoveries
Modern Discoveries
Charlotte Rudolph
Untitled (Triptych of Mary Wigman in the Masked 'Witch Dance')
Lot Closed
March 17, 04:51 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Charlotte Rudolph
1896 - 1983
Untitled (Triptych of Mary Wigman in the Masked 'Witch Dance')
blind-stamped Ch. Rudolph Dresden (on each image)
3 gelatin silver prints on carte postale
5 ⅜ by 3 ½ in. (13.7 by 8.9 cm.) (each)
Executed circa 1926.
Sotheby's New York, 14 April 1992, lot 287
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Mary Wigman (1886 - 1973) is considered by many to be the founder of modern dance in Europe. The Wigman School in Dresden produced many of the first generation of leading concert dancers in Germany; similar schools were later founded by Wigman in Berlin and New York.