'Creation'
No reserve
Lot Closed
December 18, 09:08 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ruth Bernhard
1905 - 2006
gelatin silver print, mounted to Crescent illustration board, singed in pencil, signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'Vintage RB' and with the photographer's '2982 Clay Street San Francisco, California 94115' studio stamp on the reverse, framed, a Shapiro Gallery label on the reverse, 1936
image: 7⅝ by 9⅝ in. (19.4 by 24.4 cm.)
frame: 18½ by 19 in. (47 by 48.3 cm.)
Collection of Manfred Bernhard, the artist's brother, Florida
Shapiro Gallery, 2004
James Alinder, Collecting Light: The Photographs of Ruth Bernhard (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1979), pl. 5
Ginny Williams, Ruth Bernhard: The Collection of Ginny Williams (Denver, 1993), pl. 11
Ruth Bernhard: Gift of the Commonplace (Carmel Valley: The Center for Photographic Art, 1996), pl. 7
Margaretta K. Mitchell, Ruth Bernard: Between Art & Life (San Francisco, 2000), p. 69
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