Provenance
Acquired directly from the photographer
Literature
Harper's Bazaar, March 1963, variant
Catalogue Essay
The six platinum palladium prints by Melvin Sokolsky offered in Tailor-Made: Fashion Photographs from the Peter Fetterman Collection are the first in this process to appear at auction. The labor-intensive platinum palladium technique yields prints of great nuance, delivering a wider array of tones than conventional photographic media. Working with master print studio Atelier Salto Ulbeek in Belgium, Sokolsky created a series of small editions of select images from his oeuvre. The resulting bravura prints maintain the photographs' graphic impact while revealing an entirely new level of subtle detail.

Melvin Sokolsky

Bubble Seine, Paris

1963
Platinum palladium print, printed later.
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. (69.9 x 69.9 cm)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 4/7 in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000

Sold for $47,500

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Online Auction 18 - 25 June 2020