Wynn Bullock - Photographs New York Wednesday, October 14, 2020 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Acquired from Barbara Bullock, the artist's daughter

  • Literature

    Steichen, ed., The Family of Man, frontispiece
    Abbott, Wynn Bullock: Revelations, pl. 54
    Aperture, Wynn Bullock: The Enchanted Landscape, Photographs 1940-1975, p. 104-105
    Aperture, Wynn Bullock. p. 33
    Phaidon, Wynn Bullock, p. 36-37

  • Catalogue Essay

    "Light to me is perhaps the most profound truth in the universe. My thinking has been deeply affected by the belief everything is some form of radiant energy." – Wynn Bullock

Transcendence: Photography and the Sublime

165

Let There be Light

1954
Gelatin silver print, printed 1970s.
7 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (18.7 x 24.1 cm)
Signed in pencil on the mount; titled, dated in pencil and credit 'Edna J. Bullock Collection' stamp on the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $8,750

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New York Auction 14 October 2020