Julia Margaret Cameron - Photographs from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago London Monday, November 17, 2014 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Leonard Woolf (husband of Virginia Woolf), by inheritance, 1941; Margery Hamill and Frances Barker, Chicago, 1950s; Purchased by the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970 (3 prints)
    Charles and Sandra Norman and Angelica Garnett, descendants of the photographer; Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, 1998; Mary and Leigh Block Collection, 1998 (2 prints)

  • Literature

    Cox and Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs, pls. 303, 319, 326, 327 and 1209
    Wolf, Julia Margaret Cameron's Women, cover, pl. 57

  • Catalogue Essay

    Titles include: Julia Jackson, 1867; Young Woman, Ceylon, 1875-1879; Mrs. Herbert Duckworth and Gerald Saxonbury, 1872; Mrs. Herbert Duckworth and Gerald Saxonbury, 1872; Mrs. Herbert Duckworth, 1872

    Julia Margaret Cameron has long been recognised as one of the greatest portrait photographers. Early critical discussion of her work centered on portraits of men who comprised her Victorian circle of intellectual friends, including the evolution theorist Charles Darwin, the social critic Thomas Carlyle and the poet Alfred Tennyson. The Art Institute of Chicago offered a new perspective with the 1998-1999 travelling exhibition Julia Margaret Cameron’s Women. In the introductory essay for the exhibition catalogue, Sylvia Wolf points out that, “It is in her portraits of women that she gave herself the most room for artistic experimentation and that she displays the greatest range.” And that Cameron’s pioneering portraits - precursors to a great line of portraiture by women photographers in the 20th century - “reflect the questioning of identity that is a defining characteristic of the modern era.”

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Selected Images

1867-1879
Five albumen prints, mounted.
Varying sizes from 19.9 x 15.3 cm (7 7/8 x 6 in.) to 35.5 x 26.3 cm (13 7/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
One signed, dated and annotated 'From Life', 'Registered Photograph’ and 'Saxonbury', in ink and one with ‘Colnaghi’ blindstamp on the mount; two with ‘The Art Institute of Chicago’ collection label affixed to the reverse of the mat.

Estimate
£9,000 - 12,000 

Sold for £11,250

Contact Specialist
Lou Proud
Head of Photographs
London
+ 44 207 318 4018

Photographs from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago

London 18 November 2014 2pm