Fountain, Rond-Point des Champs-Elysées, Paris, 1934

Details

ILSE BING (1899-1998)
Fountain, Rond-Point des Champs-Elysées, Paris, 1934
solarised gelatin silver print
signed and dated in ink on recto
11 1/8 x 8 3/8in. (28.3 x 21.2cm.)

Provenance

From the artist;
with Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York;
with Barry Friedman Ltd., New York.

Literature

Barrett, Ilse Bing: Three Decades of Photography, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1985, p.71, pl.36, for solarised negative; Dryansky, Ilse Bing: Photography Through the Looking Glass, Abrams, 2006, p.134.

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Lot Essay

Barrett comments: 'In dramatic photographs of fountains and statuary at night, Bing used solarization to confer a dream-like atmosphere in which movements appear phantasmic, outlined with a mysterious aura of black line...jets of water become explosions of light, brilliant in a monotonous grey plane, and surrounded by a parabola of floating light.' (Bing: Three Decades, p.25)

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