Frederick Sommer - Photographs New York Tuesday, April 4, 2017 | Phillips

Photographs

New York 4 April 2017

  • Provenance

    The artist to Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
    James Danziger Gallery, New York
    Sotheby's, New York, Important Photographs from a Private Collection, 27 April 2004, lot 19

  • Literature

    Yale University Press, The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage, cover, p. 41
    Center for Creative Photography, Sommer: Words/Images, pl. 48
    Weiss, Venus, Jupiter & Mars: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer, pl. 24
    High Museum of Art, Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, p. 50
    LIGHT Gallery, LIGHT, p. 79

  • Catalogue Essay

    The present lot was purchased in April 2004 from the Sotheby’s single owner auction Important Photographs from a Private Collection. This prominent New York collection also included photographs by 20th Century masters, such as Diane Arbus, Man Ray, Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, and Robert Frank, among others.

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Frederick Sommer

Livia

1948
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
7 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. (19.1 x 23.5 cm)
Signed, titled and dated in pencil on the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
$30,000 - 50,000 

Sold for $37,500

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Photographs

New York 4 April 2017