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Melvin Sokolsky
Bubble Seine, Paris
- Estimate
- $40,000 - 60,000
Lot Details
Platinum palladium print, printed later.
1963
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. (69.9 x 69.9 cm)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 4/7 in pencil on the verso.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
The six platinum palladium prints by Melvin Sokolsky offered in Tailor-Made: Fashion Photographs from the Peter Fetterman Collection are the first in this process to appear at auction. The labor-intensive platinum palladium technique yields prints of great nuance, delivering a wider array of tones than conventional photographic media. Working with master print studio Atelier Salto Ulbeek in Belgium, Sokolsky created a series of small editions of select images from his oeuvre. The resulting bravura prints maintain the photographs' graphic impact while revealing an entirely new level of subtle detail.
Provenance
Literature