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Erwin Blumenfeld
Color
- Estimate
- £15,000 - 20,000♠
£22,500
Lot Details
Hamburg: PPS. Galerie F.C. Gundlach, 1984. Ten dye transfer prints.
Varying sizes from 30 x 20.1 cm (11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in) to 45.6 x 32.2 cm (17 7/8 x 12 5/8 in)
Copyright credit estate stamp, numbered 35/50 and initialled by F. C. Gundlach in pencil on the reverse of each print. Number 35 from an edition of 50 plus 7 artist's proofs. Colophon. Contained in a clamshell portfolio case.
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Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
Titles in plate order: Decolleté, Cover Study, New York, 1950s; Distorted Nude, New York, 1950s; Model and Mannequin Cover Study, New York, 1945; Broken Mirror, New York, early 1940s; Water Effect Cover Study, New York, early 1950s; Study for an Advertising Photograph, New York, 1948; Line on Face, New York, 1947-1949; Lisette behind fluted Glass, New York, circa 1943; Cubistic Purple Nude, New York, 1949; Three Times Petersen Study for a Fashion Page, New York, late 1940s
"My pure black and white's were transformed by the vitality of Kodak's colours which awaited me in America."
ERWIN BLUMENFELD
"My pure black and white's were transformed by the vitality of Kodak's colours which awaited me in America."
ERWIN BLUMENFELD
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Literature