Frederick Sommer - The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation, Part 2 New York Tuesday, April 4, 2017 | Phillips

The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy...

New York 4 April 2017

  • Provenance

    The artist, circa 1950-1952
    Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Sotheby's, New York, Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art, 22 October 2002, lot 11

  • Exhibited

    Christmas Photographers, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 28 November 1951- 6 January 1952

  • Literature

    Center for Creative Photography, Sommer: Words/Images, pl. 35
    Lyons and Cox, Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage, p. 71

179

Frederick Sommer

Circumnavigation of the Blood

1950
Gelatin silver print.
4 x 5 1/2 in. (10.2 x 14 cm)
Signed, titled, dated in pencil and Museum of Modern Art Photography Department stamps on the reverse of the mount; Museum of Modern Art exhibition label affixed to the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

Sold for $13,750

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The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation, Part 2

New York 4 April 2017