Minor White (American, 1908-1976)
Moon and Wall Encrustations, Pultneyville, New York, 1964
gelatin silver print
8 3/4 x11 1/4 in. (22.2 x 28.6 cm)
Herb Ritts (American, 1952-2002)
Vladimir I, Hollywood, 1990
platinum print
24 x 20 in. (60.96 x 50.8 cm), ed: 16/25
v: signed, titled, dated, editioned
provenance: the artist
Robert Mapplethorpe (American, 1946-1989)
Lisa Lyon, 1980-1981
gelatin silver print
14 x 14 in. (35.56 x 35.56 cm), ed: 3/15
v: signed
provenance: the artist
George Platt Lynes (American, 1907-1955)
Alfred Herrick, January 31, 1936
gelatin silver print
9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (24.13 x 19.05 cm)
Guy Bourdin (French, 1928-1991)
Mode pour Vogue, 1987
cibachrome
11 x 14 in. (27.94 x 35.56 cm)
Erwin Blumenfeld (American, 1897-1969)
Water Effect, Cover Study, New York early 1950s
dye transfer print
12 11/16 x 9 15/16 in. (32.23 x 25.24 cm), ed: 34/50
v: stamped
Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904-1971)
Study for Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratford, CT, c. 1934
gelatin silver print
9 1/8 x 13 3/8 in. (23.18 x 33.97 cm)
v: credit stamp "A Margaret Bourke-White Photograph"
Garry Winogrand (American, 1928-1984)
Los Angeles, California, 1969/1974
gelatin silver print
8 1/2 x 13 in. (21.59 x 33.02 cm), ed: 55/75
r: signed and editioned in pencil
Bill Brandt (British, b. Germany, 1904-1983)
Sir Alec Guiness, Campden Hill, 1952
gelatin silver print
9 ¼ x 8 in. (23.5 x 20.3 cm)
v: titled, dated and stamped "Bill Brandt"
Francesco Scavullo (American, 1921-2004)
Mikail Baryshnikov, New York Studio, 1981
silver print
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm)
provenance: Francesco Scavullo
This photo was taken in New York after Baryshnikov defected to North America.
Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904-1971)
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with Eleanor in Warm Springs, Tennessee, 1938
gelatin silver print
10 1/4 x 13 3/8 in. (26.04 x 33.97 cm):
v: photographer's credit stamp and number stamp; titled and annotated in an unidentified hand in pencil
Bill Brandt (British, b. Germany 1904-1983)
Dylan Thomas, London, 1941
gelatin silver print
8 1/2 x 7 in. (21.59 x 17.78 cm)
v: titled, dated and stamped "Bill Brandt"
Irving Penn (American, b.1917)
Sweep, London, 1950
platinum palladium print
19 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (48.9 x 37.47 cm)
provenance: Irving Penn
Harry Callahan (American, 1912-1999)
Chicago (pedestrians), 1961
gelatin silver print
9 5/8 x 6 3/8 in. (24.45 x 16.19 cm)
r: signed "Harry Callahan", in pencil, on mount
provenance: Harry Callahan
Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975)
Study of African Art 320, c.1935
gelatin silver print
10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.32 cm)
v: stamped "Walker Evans" and annotated "XX" and "320" twice
André Kertész (American, b. Hungary, 1894-1985)
untitled, 1934
silver print
11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (28.58 x 20.96 cm)
P.O.R.
provenance: André Kertész
André Kertész (American, b. Hungary, 1894-1985)
Jane Corkin pre opening of Front Street Gallery, 1979
gelatin silver print
4 5/8 x 6 5/8 in. (11.75 x 16.83 cm)
v: Signed, titled, dated, annotated "pre-opening of the gallery february 1979", in ink
provenance: André Kertész
André Kertész (American, b. Hungary, 1894-1985)
Jane Corkin pre opening of Front Street Gallery, 1979
gelatin silver print made 1979
4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (11.43 x 16.51 cm)
provenance: André Kertész
Herb Ritts (American, 1952-2002)
Female Nude with Black Sand, Hawaii, 1989
silver gelatin print
16 x 20 in. (40.64 x 50.8 cm), ed: 14/25
provenance: Herb Ritts
Edmund Kesting (German, 1892-1970)
Nude Torso, 1932
gelatin silver print, solarized
16 x 11 1/2 in. (40.64 x 29.21 cm)
Horst P. Horst (American, b. Germany, 1906-1999)
Courreges Bathing Suit, 1978
platinum print
18 x 13 3/4 in. (45.72 x 34.92 cm), ed: 3/10
provenance: Horst P. Horst
Bill Brandt (British, b. Germany 1904-1983)
Nude Abstraction, 1952
gelatin silver print
9 x 7 3/4 in. (22.86 x 19.69 cm)
Horst P. Horst (American, b. Germany, 1906-1999)
Dali Costumes, Paris, 1939
platinum print, one of the original edition of 10
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm)
provenance: Horst P. Horst
Irving Penn (American, b.1917)
Nude 112, 1949-1950
gelatin silver print
15 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. (39.37 x 37.47 cm), ed: 18
v: signed in ink and 'Penn/Condé Nast' copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps
provenance: Irving Penn
Marion Post Wolcott (American, 1910-1990)
Jitterbugging in a Juke Joint on a Saturday Night, Clarksdale,
Mississippi, 1939
gelatin silver print
15 ¼ x 8 3/8 (38.7 x 46.7 cm)
r: inscribed "Farm Security Administration, Photograph by
Marion Post Wolcott" in white ink
v: annotated “"FSA neg no. #52594-0" and "Original vintage
print/Marion Post Wolcott"
André Kertész (American, b. Hungary, 1894-1985)
Montparnasse, 1928
silver print
13 ¼ x 10 3/16 (33.7 x 25.9 cm)
provenance: André Kertész
Germaine Krull (German, 1897-1985)
On the Beach, c. 1935
gelatin silver print
9 3/8 x 5 5/8 in. (23.8 x 14.3 cm)
v: annotated “Sur la plage de Cannes, cette belle jeune fille,
semble personnifier l'été et toutes ses joies” in ink, with artist
stamp “PHOTO REPORTAGES CANNES Mention Obligatoire”
and “GERMAINE KRULL MENTION OBLIGATOIRE” in ink
provenance: Germaine Krull personal collection
Lewis Hine (American, 1874-1940)
Untitled (New Orleans, #3699), 1913
gelatin silver print
4 3/8 x 6 3/8 in. (11.3 x 16.4 cm)
v. annotated and dated “3699, New Orleans, La., Nov. 1913”; label
“Group of workers in Lane Cotton Mill, New Orleans, showing
the youngest workers and typical of conditions in New Orleans. Violations of the law are rare.”
Lewis Hine (American, 1874-1940)
West Virginia #187, 1908
gelatin silver print
5 ¾ x 6 ½ in. (14.6 x 16.5 cm)
v. annotated and dated “187 W. Va. Oct. 1908”; printed label “Man
with Foot Mold and Boys. A West Virginia Glass Works.”
Diane Arbus (American, 1923-1971)
Masked Woman in a Wheelchair, 1970
gelatin silver print, printed later by Neil Selkirk
19 ¾ x 16 in. (50.2 x 40.6 cm)
v. signed, titled, stamped “A Diane Arbus photograph”, numbered
“47/75 by Doon Arbus, Executor’ in ink.
Stefan Jasienski (Polish, b. 1899, d. Switzerland, 1990)
Wellenbrecher, 1949
gelatin silver print
11 ¾ x 15 ½ in. (29.9 x 39.4 cm)
v. signed, titled, dated, numbered “49/8” in pencil
provenance: the artist
Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829-1916)
Devil’s Cañon, Geysers, Looking Down, c. 1869
mammoth albumen print
15 7/8 x 20 5/8 in. (40.3 x 52.4 cm)
r: titled on mount in a calligraphic hand
lit.: Palmquist, Carleton E. Watkins Photographs 1861-1874
(Fraenkel Gallery with Bedford Arts Publishers, 1989), pl. 68.
Palmquist, Peter E., Carleton E. Watkins: Photographer of the
American West (University of New Mexico Press, 1983), pl. 39.
Margaret Watkins (Canadian, b. 1884, d. New York, 1969)
Domestic Symphony, 1919
platinum/palladium print
8 7/16 x 6 ½ in. (21.4 x 16.5 cm)
v: signed and titled
lit: Madill & Bruce, Approaching a New Photographic Aesthetic (Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2000)
Edward Quigley
untitled (bicycle spokes), 1935
gelatin silver print
10 x 13 1/4 in. (25.4 x 33.66 cm)
Rogi André (French, b. Hungary, 1905-1970)
Exposition Picasso, 1931
gelatin silver print
6 5/8 x 9 3/8 in. (16.8 x 23.8 cm)
v: signed, titled, dated and stamped by the photographer
Rogi André was the first wife of André Kertész.
Brassai (French, b. Hungary 1899-1984)
Atelier de Picasso, Rue des Grands Augustins, Paris, "Le Désir attrapé
par la queue", 1944
gelatin silver print, printed in 1970s
9 ¼ x 12 3/8 in. (23.5 x 31.4 cm)
r: signed in ink in margin
v: signed, titled and dated in pencil; copyright stamp
Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908-2004)
French Wedding, France, 1954
gelatin silver print
11 ¾ x 7 7/8 in. (29.8 x 20 cm)
v: stamped “REPRODUCE ONLY ON CONDITIONS: (1) CREDIT
MUST BE GIVEN TO HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (2)
PHOTOGRAPH MUST NOT BE ALTERED BY TRIMMING”; stamped “HARPER’S BAZAR, Feature: French Wedding 3-X, Issue: July, Number: 7-25, Date: 5/10/54” (details hand-written on stamp)
lit: Harper’s Bazaar, June 1954, p. 87
Alice Boughton (American, 1865-1943)
Boughton's Children Playing Checkers, c. 1910
platinum print
7 3/8 x 9 ¼ in. (18.7 x 23.5 cm)
exhib: Children in Photography – 150 Years, travelling exhibition, 1990-92
André Kertész (American, b. Hungary, 1894-1985)
At the Gallery (Jayce Salloum), 1981
gelatin silver print
6 7/8 x 9 11/16 in. (17.5 x 24.6 cm)
provenance: André Kertész
Eugène Atget (French, 1857-1927)
Pommier, 1922
albumen silver print
16 ¼ x 14 ½ in. (41.3 x 36.9 cm) framed
provenance: Museum of Modern Art
Eugène Atget (French, 1857-1927)
La Bievre a la sortie de Paris, 1913
albumen silver print
14½ x 16 in. (26.9 x 40.6 cm)
provenance: Museum of Modern Art
Eugène Atget (French, 1857-1927)
Jardin de Luxembourg, c. 1924
albumen silver print
14 ½ x 16 in. (36.8 x 40.6 cm)
provenance: Museum of Modern Art 1968-2002
Félix Bonfils (French, 1831-1885)
Khan-el-Ahmar: Scene of the Good Samaritan Episode, 1870s
albumen print
8 ¾ x 11 in. (22.2 x 27.9 cm)
r: numbered “1044” and titled in the negative
Eadweard Muybridge (English, 1830-1904)
Plate 163 from Animal Locomotion, 1887
collotype
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
v: titled
provenance: deaccessioned from Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC
Eadweard Muybridge (English, 1830-1904)
Plate 199 from Animal Locomotion, 1887
collotype
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
provenance: deaccessioned from Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC
Lewis Hine (American, 1874-1940)
New York City #2847, 1912
gelatin silver print
4 ¾ x 6 ½ in. (12.1 x 16.5 cm)
v. annotated “A tiny eight-year-old carrying home a load of flowers,
Thompson Street, N.Y.” in pencil
Lewis Hine (American, 1874-1940)
New York City #2845, 1912
gelatin silver print
4 ¾ x 6 ½ in. (12.1 x 16.5 cm)
v. signed, annotated “Women carrying flowers to work upon
Thompson Street” in pencil
Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975)
Tin Relic, 1930,
gelatin silver print
flush mounted, mounted again to board
6 x 7 5/8 in. (15.2 x 19.37 cm)
r: signed and dated in pencil on mount
v: titled and annotated “American Photographs. opp. p.184” in an unidentified hand in pencil
lit: Hambourg et al., Walker Evans (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000), pl. 24.
Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904-1971)
Aluminum Company of America (M1-M4), 1934
gelatin silver print
9 5/16 x 9 3/8 in. (23.6 x 23.8 cm) each
r: each segment signed “Bourke-White” in artist’s hand on the image
v: each segment credit stamped “A Margaret Bourke-White Photograph”
each segment annotated “M1 [or M2, M3, etc.] al Co 1/4 circle” in an
unidentified hand
Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904-1971)
Machine Dance, Moscow Ballet School, 1931
gelatin silver print for exhibition, on original mount
13 7/8 x 19 ½ in. (23.8 x 14.3 cm)
r: signed, titled "Machine Dance. Moscow Ballet Bourke
White", in pencil
v: stamped label affixed to mount: "A MARGARET BOURKE-
WHITE PHOTOGRAPH", in ink, with typed label annotated
"MACHINE DANCE, Pupils of the Moscow Ballet school"
provenance: purchased in 1984 from an assistant to Margaret Bourke-White
exhib: Victoria and Albert Museum, “Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939,” April 6-July 23, 2006
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, March 17-July 29, 2007
lit: Wilk, ed., Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939
(Victoria and Albert Museum, 2006)
Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984)
Mt. Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California, 1944, printed 1978
gelatin silver print
15 3/8 x 18 1/8 in. (39.05 x 46.04 cm)
r: signed by the photographer on mount; his Carmel studio stamp
v: titled and dated in an unidentified hand
provenance: the artist
lit: Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, p. 261
Adams, Ansel Adams at 100 (Bullfinch, 2003), p. 97
Adams, Yosemite and the Range of Light (Little Brown, 1979),
pl. 46
Alinder, Szarkowski & Adams, Ansel Adams: Classic Image Essays
(Bullfinch, 1986), pl. 40
Richard Avedon (American, 1923-2004)
The Generals of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1963,
printed 1964, ed. 5/25
gelatin silver print
15 3/4 x 19 5/8 in. (40.01 x 49.85 cm)
r: signed, dated, and numbered “5/25” by the photographer in
pencil; stamped with title and reproduction rights stamps
provenance: the artist
lit: Avedon, Richard Avedon: an Autobiography (Random House 1993)
Irving Penn (American, 1917-2009)
Deep Sea Diver, New York, 1951, ed. 7/38
platinum/palladium print
19 x 14 3/8 in. (48.26 x 36.51 cm)
v: signed, titled, dated and editioned in pencil; annotated
“Platinum Palladium print made November 1976”; stamped “Photograph by Irving Penn © 1951 by the Conde Nast Publications Inc. Not to be reproduced without permission of the copyright owner” and “In addition to 38 prints of this image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 8 may exist.”
provenance: the artist
Konstantin Kazansky (Russian)
Untitled (Russian Film Directors), 1925
collage (mixed media): silver prints and photomechanical cutouts
13 x 9 ½ in. (33 x 24.1 cm)
Vinicio Paladini (Italian, 1902-1971)
The Olympic Games, 1920s
photocollage
11 ½ x 7 ½ in. (29.2 x 19.1 cm)
r: paper label with printed credit
lit: See, A World History of Photography, p. 398
exhib: Rome, Retrospective Paladini, 1938
Georges Hugnet (French, 1906-1974)
Untitled, 1923
mixed media collage
11 x 8 ¾ in. (27.9 x 22.2 cm)
r: signed “GH” in ink
(Guglielmo Sansoni) Tato (1896-1974)
Ritratta del poeta G. A. Fanelli, 1930
gelatin silver print
8 ¾ x 6 ¼ in. (22.2 x 15.9 cm)
v: signed, titled, annotated by the photographer in pencil and with
his credit stamp
exhib: Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,
Photographie Futuriste Italienne 1911-1939,
Oct 1981-Jan 1982
lit: Giovanni Lista, Photographie Futuriste Italienne, 1911-1939,
pl. 130 (likely this print)
Lista, Futurismo e Fotografia, pl 144, p. 151 (likely this print)
provenance: Giovanni Lista
Alexander Zhitomirsky (Russian, 1907-1993)
Russian Propaganda Collage: This Lance-Corporal Leads Germany
to Catastrophe (Bismarck and Hitler), 1942
collage
18 1/2 x 13 ¼ in. (47 x 33.7 cm)
r: signed and dated, label with title of work in Russian
v. signed “A. житомирский, 1942” in ink; annotated “зараз 1299”
in a different hand, in ink; crop marks, red and white tape
Eugene Druet (French, 1868-1916)
La Pensée (Camille Claudel)
silver print
15 ½ x 11 ½ in. (39.4 x 29.2 cm)
r: photographer’s blind stamp, signature “Aug. Rodin”
v: annotated “La Pensée, der Gedanke, Kopf Camille
Claudel, 1886-1895”
Pierre-Louis Pierson (French, 1822-1913)
Tristesse (portrait of la Contesse de Castiglioni), c. 1893
gelatin silver print
printed by Braun & Cie, c. 1930
9 ½ x 8 ¼ in. (24.1 x 21 cm)
Adolphe Braun (French, 1811-1877)
Untitled, Still Life #5, c. 1855
albumen print from collodion negative
12 1/8 x 14 ¾ in. (30.8 x 37.5 cm)
Provenance: Tex Braun, Paris, 1985
Etienne Jules Marey (French, 1830-1904)
Motion Studies, c. 1880
gelatin silver print
7 x 12 1/4 in. (17.8 x 31.1 cm)
Etienne Jules Marey (French, 1830-1904)
Motion Studies, c. 1880
gelatin silver print
7 x 12 1/4 in. (17.8 x 31.1 cm)
Comte Olympio-Clemente Aguado (French, 1827-1894)
Groupe de maçons au travail, c. 1860
albumen print
21 x 16 5/8 in. (53.4 x 42.2 cm)
provenance: André Jammes
Julia Margaret Cameron (British, b. India 1815-1879)
Portrait of Henry Taylor, 1865
20 x 14 in. (50.8 x 35.6 cm)
r: signed by Cameron with her title, copyright and "From Life", in ink; Colnaghi blind stamp on the two-toned mount
James Anderson
The Forum of Trajan's Column and Church of Santa Maria de Loreto, c.1850
salt print from an albumen glass plate negative
16 1/4 x 12 1/2 in. (41.28 x 31.75 cm)
David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
(Scottish, 1802-1870, 1821-1848)
Newhaven Fishermen, c. 1855
salt print from a calotype negative
5 ¾ x 7 ½ in. (14.61 x 19.05 cm)
Charles Negre
Self-Portrait in Oriental Costume, 1855-60
albumen print from collodion negative
3 3/8 x 2 9/16 in. (8.57 x 6.51 cm)
v: annotated "50", in pencil
provenance: André Jammes
Frederick Evans (English, 1853-1943)
Nantes Cathedral: Organ Staircase, early 1900s
platinum print
10 7/8 x 5 1/8 in. (27.6 x 13 cm)
r: signed and titled in pencil on the mount; mounted
within watercolour and ink borders
v: initialed in red pencil
Horst P. Horst (American, b. Germany, 1906-1999)
Dali, New York, 1940
platinum print made in 1987, ed. 7/25
14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
r: signed “Horst”
provenance: the artist
Herbert Matter (American, b. Switzerland, 1907-1984)
Untitled (Archer), 1930s
gelatin silver print
14 x 10 ½ in. (35.6 x 26.7 cm)
v: stamp “Photo Herbert Matter” crop marks in grease pen and pencil
Herbert Matter was a master technician, using cropping and enlarging to achieve a pure visual approach. Born in Switzerland, he worked for Le Corbusier. In 1936, he came to America, where his Bauhaus influence was important at Harper’s and Vogue. He later became a design consultant for Knoll, and taught at Yale University.
Lux Feininger (American, b. Germany, 1910-2011)
Bauhaus Stage, (Oscar Schlemmer Cosumes), 1927
gelatin silver print
7 9/16 x 5 3/8 in. (19.2 x 13.7 cm)
lit: Jeannine Fiedler, Fotografie am Bauhaus (Dirk Nishen, 1993) p. 334, pl. 401
provenance: Irene & Herbert Bayer Collection
Theo Blanc & Antoine Demilly (French, 1891-1985, 1892-1964)
Untitled (Guignol), c.1936
silver print
7 x 9 ½ in. (17.8 x 24.1 cm)
r: signed in pencil
Théo Blanc and Antoine Demilly had a photographic studio in Lyon, France from post-WWI until the late 1950s. Their artistic partnership was influenced by the French surrealists. Their many bodies of work were inspired by the social culture and history of Lyon. The folk story of Guignol tells of a poor man who worked as a teeth puller, in an age before dentists, and who created puppets to amuse people before the use of anesthetic.
Lux Feininger (American, b. Germany, 1910-2011)
Max Bill at the Bauhaus, 1926
gelatin silver print
3 3/8 x 4 5/8 in. (8.6 x 11.8 cm)
provenance: Irene & Herbert Bayer Collection
Carl “Casca” Schlemmer (German, 1883-1966)
Andor Weininger in a Stage Production, 1926
gelatin silver print
3 1/8 x 2 5/16 in. (7.9 x 5.9 cm)
v: dated and annotated “Andor Weininger”
lit: Marzona, Bauhaus Photography (MIT Press, 1985), p. 228.
Lucia Moholy (German, b. Czech, 1894-1989)
Self-Portrait, 1930
Gelatin silver print
3 3/8 x 2 11/16 in. (8.6 x 6.8 cm)
v: signed “Moholy Lucia”; dated “1930”; typed label “Lucia
Moholy-Nagy 1930”
provenance: Irene & Herbert Bayer Collection
Lux Feininger (American, b. Germany, 1910-2011)
Andor Weininger and Xanti Schawinsky from the Bauhaus Band, c. 1926
gelatin silver print
3 ¼ x 4 3/8 in. (8.3 x 11.1 cm)
v: signed “Lux F.” and “Lux Feininger”; titled “A. Weininger and Xanti Schawinsky du Bauhaus Band”
provenance: Irene & Herbert Bayer Collection
Herbert Bayer (Austrian, 1900-1985)
Untitled, c. 1920
gelatin silver print
2 1/6 x 3 ¼ in. (5.2 x 8.3 cm)
v. stamped “foto Herbert Bayer”; annotated “F10502/18”
provenance: Irene & Herbert Bayer Collection
Herbert Bayer was a typographer with the Bauhaus School. After he studied under Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, Gropius appointed Bayer director of printing and advertising at the school. He later became the art director for Vogue Berlin.
Lux Feininger (American, b. Germany 1910-2011)
Lyonel Feininger and the Sailboat, c. 1920
gelatin silver print
3 7/8 x 3 1/8 in. (9.8 x 7.9 cm)
v: signed “photo Lux Feininger”; numbered “7”
provenance: Irene & Herbert Bayer Collection
Franz Roh (German, 1890-1965)
Pensive Child, 1933
gelation silver print
4 1/8 x 5 in. (10.5 x 12.7 cm)
v. signed in ink, dated in pencil
Roger Parry (French, 1905-1977)
Demonstration in 1934
gelatin silver print
15 1/2 x 19 3/8 in. (39.4 x 49.2 cm)
r: signed "R. Parry"
v: dated February 12, 1934
Constantin Brancusi (Romanian, 1876-1957)
Leda, 1923
gelatin silver print
6 9/16 x 8 7/8 in. (16.67 x 22.54 cm)
v: signed, titled and dated "Brancusi; Leda, 1923" in artist's hand
Brassai (French, b. Hungary 1899-1984)
Nu, Minotaure No. 1,1933
5 7/8 x 9 3/8 in. (14.9 x 23.8 cm)
v: stamped "Photo Brassai copyright by Gyula Halasz"
lit: Minotaure No. 1,1933, for article by Maurice Raynal entitled "Variété du corps humaine," in Andre Breton's Surrealist journal Minotaure, p. 43.
Kraus, Livingston & Ades, L'amour fou Photography and Surrealism, Catalogue for exhibition at Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1985, p.94.
Roger Parry (French, 1905-1977)
Self-portrait with pipe, c. 1935
gelatin silver print
9 3/8 x 7” (23.8 x 17.6 cm)
v: stamped “Photo R. Parry, 48 rue A. Gervais, Issy- Seine” on mount
provenance: Germaine Krull personal collection
André Kertész (American, b. Hungary, 1894-1985)
Pont Neuf, 1928
gelatin silver print, double weight exhibition print
13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (34.29 x 26.67 cm)
provenance: the artist
Germaine Krull (German, 1897-1985)
Une oeuvre tres recente de Picabia, (A recent painting by Picabia),
c. 1935
gelatin silver print
8 11/16 x 6 7/8 in. (22.1 x 17.5 cm)
r: signed in ink
v: dated in ink; annotated with title and “Photo Reportages
(mention obligatoire)” in artist’s hand in ink; stamped “Germaine Krull, Mention Obligatoire”
provenance: Germaine Krull personal collection
Germaine Krull (German, 1897-1985)
Gregor Piatigorski, 1935
gelatin silver print
4 ½ x 6 ½ in. (11.4 x 16.5 cm)
v: typed label "20/12/35, le Grand Violoncelliste Gregor
Piatigorski a Monte Carlo, le grand violoncelliste, donne son dernier concert a Monte Carlo avant son depart pour une tournee en Amerique. Il prendra son bateau au debut de janvier a ville franche ave Toscanini et Horowitz."
provenance: Germaine Krull personal collection
Raoul Ubac (Belgian, 1910-1985)
Mannequin de Miro, 1938
gelatinsilver print
9 1/6 x 3 3/4 in. (23 x 9.5 cm)
v: label “Raoul Ubac 46, Rue Hippolyte Maindron Paris
XIVe”
lit: Kachur, Displaying the Marvelous (MIT Press, 2001), p. 54.
provenance: Collection André Breton
Sophie Taeuber-Arp (b. Switzerland, 1889, d. Paris, 1943)
Sophie Taeuber-Arp derrière sa tête Dada, 1920
gelatin silver print
4 5/8 x 3 5/8 in. (11.7 x 9.2 cm); mounted on board: 8 15/16 in. x 6 5/16 in.
r: blind stamp “Nic Aluf Photo” on mount
lit: Sawelson-Gorse, Women in Dada (MIT Press, 1998), p. 539
Claude Cahun (French, 1894-1954)
Objets sous globe de verre, 1936
gelatin silver print
4 3/16 x 3 5/16 in. (10.6 x 8.4 cm)
provenance: Estate of Claude Cahun, Soizic Oduard
Dora Maar (French, 1907-1997)
Grotesque, c.1935
mixed media: gelatin silver print, with crayon and ink, unique
7 1/4 x 8 7/8 in. (18.4 x 22.6 cm)
v: Dora Maar Estate Stamp “DM 1998” at lower right;
annotated “N4-DM-251” in pencil at lower left
provenance: estate of Dora Maar
Anne Brigman (American, 1869-1950)
Isadora Duncan, 1918
platinum print
9 ½ x 7 ¼ in. (24.1 x 18.4 cm)
r: signed and dated in pencil in bottom right corner
Harry Callahan (American, 1912-1999)
Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago, 1953
gelatin silver print
8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm)
r: signed "Harry Callahan" with pencil or stylus
v: annotated “E-48.5”
provenance: the artist
Edward Weston (American, 1887-1958)
Portrait of Imogen Cunningham, 1937
gelatin silver print
4 ½ x 3 ½ in. (11.4 x 8.9 cm)
v: signed and inscribed “Credit – Edward Weston, Carmel”
František Drtikol (Czech, 1883-1961)
Self-portrait, 1929
gelatin silver print
9 x 6 ½” (23 x 16.7 cm)
r: blind stamp “DRTIKOL & POV, 1929” on photo; blind
stamp “Drtikol Praha II-730” on mount
v: Warsaw customs stamp
