Gertrude Käsebier - The Arc of Photography: A Private East Coast Collection New York Tuesday, October 4, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Directly from the artist; to the collection of Sara Andrew Schafer, New York; to the collection of Elizabeth H. Wilson; Sotheby's, New York, 28 April 1999, lot 49

  • Literature

    Davis, An American Century of Photograph, From Dry-Plate to Digital: The Hallmark Photographic Collection, pl. 90; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Gertrude Käsebier: The Photographer and Her Photographs, pl. 73

  • Catalogue Essay

    Barbara Michaels, author of Gertrude Käsebier: The Photographer and Her Photographs, has noted in her research that this particular image was a favorite of three portraits made of Rodin by Käsebier and further,'Because she called him the most restless subject she had ever photographed-Käsebeir counted her pictures of him among her greatest accomplishments'.

    Other platinum prints of this image are in the collections of the Musée Rodin, Paris; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Hallmark Collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City.

THE ARC OF PHOTOGRAPHY: A PRIVATE EAST COAST COLLECTION

241

Auguste Rodin

1905
Platinum print on tissue, tipped to the original paper mount.
12 3/4 x 9 5/8 in. (32.4 x 24.4 cm).
Signed in pencil on the recto. Accompanied by the original backing board inscribed and signed in ink by the original owner, ‘This portrait of Auguste Rodin was given me by the photographer Gertrude Käsebier—July 7th 1906, New York. Sara Andrew Schafer’ and in a second hand in ink and pencil, ‘To Elizabeth H. Wilson. Given me by Mother of Sara Schafer, 1918. E. H. Wilson.’

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for $50,000

The Arc of Photography: A Private East Coast Collection

4 October 2011 6PM
New York