FRANCIS BRUGUIÈRE (1879-1945)

Details
FRANCIS BRUGUIÈRE (1879-1945)

Night Lights

Gelatin silver print. circa 1931. Titled in pencil, credit and title in pencil in an unknown hand on the verso. 9 1/8 x 7 1/8in.
Provenance
Ex-collection, Oswell Blakeston, co-author with Bruguiere of Few Are Chosen,
With Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco,
To the present owner.
Literature
Few Are Chosen, pl. 110.

Lot Essay

Bruguière's career spanned the eras of Pictorialism and the Photo-Secession but perhaps his most important work came later in his life when he worked in an increasingly abstract, Modernist manner. In 1926 he began his series of photographs of cut-paper and two years later he moved to London where he remained until 1932. As a trained painter and musician his multiple talents were never neglected and he worked in theatre stage design, filmmaking, painting and sculpture. An extensive collection of his work is housed at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.
There are no other known prints of this image.