Blumenfeld Color

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ERWIN BLUMENFELD (1897–1969)
Blumenfeld Color
Hamburg: PPS Gallery F.C. Gundlach, 1984. Portfolio of ten dye transfer prints; each stamped Estate copyright credit, initialed by F.C. Gundlach and numbered '22/50' in pencil (verso); each image approximately 13 x 10 in. (33 x 25.3 cm.); each sheet 19 3/4 x 15 1/2 in. (50.1 x 39.3 cm.); number twenty-two from an edition of fifty; sold without title page, plate list, colophon, and original red, linen covered box.

Provenance

Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld;
F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1989.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Erwin Blumenfeld 1897-1969, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, 1988.
William A. Ewing, Blumenfeld: A Fetish for Beauty, Thames & Hudson, New York, 1996.
Yorick Blumenfeld, The Naked and the Vailed, The Photographic Nudes of Erwin Bumenfeld, Thames & Hudson, New York, 1999.
Exhibition catalogue, Erwin Blumenfeld: Photographs, Drawings and Photomontages, Jeu de Paume Gallery, 2014.

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