PIERRE DUBREUIL (1872-1944)

Puissance/Mightiness

Details

PIERRE DUBREUIL (1872-1944)
Dubreuil, Pierre
Puissance/Mightiness
Oil print. 1909. Initialed with monogram in pencil on the recto; titled in pencil on the mount; signed, titled in French and English in ink, dated in pencil and stamped DB69 on the reverse of the mount.
9 x 8in. (24.2 x 22.2cm.)

Provenance

Tom Jacobson;
Photographs (Part I), Christie's, New York, 20 April 1994, lot 13.

Literature

Jacobson, Pierre Dubreuil Photographs 1896-1935 exhibition catalogue, pl. 9 and p. 17, fig. 5; Proto Modern Photography exhibition catalogue, Santa Fe: Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, 1992, n.p.

Exhibited

International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography, Albright Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1910
Pierre Dubreuil, The Royal Photographic Society, London 1935 21st Annual International Salon of Pictorial Photography, Los Angeles, 1938
Pierre Dubreuil Photographs 1896-1935 Retrospective Exhibition, Muse d'Art Moderne, Center George Pompidou, Paris, 1987;
Pierre Dubreuil Rediscovered, The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, 1988
The Detroit Institute of the Arts, 1990
Proto Modern Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1992

Lot Essay

This print is unique. According to Tom Jacobson, the dealer, researcher and photographic historian responsible for the rediscovery of Pierre Dubreuil, no other prints of Puissance/Mightiness are known to exist.

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