Buttress, Ranchos de Taos Church, New Mexico, 1932

Details

PAUL STRAND (1890-1976)
Buttress, Ranchos de Taos Church, New Mexico, 1932
gelatin silver print, printed circa 1954
printing notations by the artist in pencil (on the verso); authenticated with credit, title and date in pencil by Ann Kennedy (on the reverse of the vellum flush-mount)
9¼ x 7¼in. (23.5 x 18.4cm.)

Provenance

Property of a Southwest Private Collector, Christie's, New York, 5 October 1994, lot 46;
by agent;
to the present owner

Literature

Greenough, Paul Strand: An American Vision, p. 78

Sale room notice

This work is believed to have been printed in the 1960s.

Lot Essay

From Gallery 291, Paul Strand was exposed to the work of such artists such as Brancusi, Rodin, Matisse and Picasso, and became aware of how sculptural forms imposed a presence that affected surrounding space. Strand was intent on developing photographic and processing techniques to liberate three dimensional form from the two dimensional plane in order to express architectural volume. One technique Strand used to achieve an appearance of greater depth was, as here, to apply lacquer to the surface of the print.
There are approximately 3 known silver prints of this image in this format.

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