FREDERICK SOMMER (1905-1999)

Ondine, 1950

Details

FREDERICK SOMMER (1905-1999)
Ondine, 1950
gelatin silver print
signed, titled and dated in pencil (on the reverse of the mount)
3¾ x 5½in. (9.6 x 14cm.)

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, April 18, 1997, lot 411;
to the present owner

Literature

Exhibition Checklist: A Supplement to Venus, Jupiter & Mars: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer, Delaware Art Museum, 1980, cat. no. 42; Glenn and Bledsoe, eds., Frederick Sommer at Seventy-five: A Retrospective, The Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, 1980, cat. no. 22, p. 6, variant cropping; Sommer: Images, Center for Creative Photography, 1984, pl. 37, variant cropping; Lyons and Cox, eds., The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage, Frederick and Frances Sommer Foundation Yale University Press, 2005, p. 65

Lot Essay

There are only three known tightly cropped prints from this negative. In addition to the present lot, there is one print in a private collection and one print in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. After the 1960s, Sommer did not crop prints made from this negative. In later prints, the ragged edges of the weathered board are visible.

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