Lot 137
  • 137

David McDermott and Peter McGough b. 1952 and 1958

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

  • David McDermott and Peter McGough
  • 'THE METALLIC PLATE: THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY'
(New York: Kevin Begos Publishing & Lunn Ltd., 1994, an edition of 30 numbered copies, 8 artist's proofs, one printer's proof, the bon à tirer, one platemaker's, and 2 cancellation proofs), a portfolio of 10 photogravures, each signed, titled, and numbered 'no. 14 of 30' by the photographers in pencil on the reverse, 1994; together with the printed title, colophon, and plate list. Folio, blue wrappers with flaps, the rear wrapper reinforced with board, the photographers' letterpress label on the front, no. 14 in a total edition of 43

Provenance

Lunn, Ltd., New York/Paris

Acquired by Margaret W. Weston from the above, 1995

Catalogue Note

The plates are as follows:

Sunflower

Lillies

The Hat Ambrey

Valpicon Bather

Worn about the Neck

The Bubble Blower

Deprived of Head and Limb

A Means of Identifying the Wearer

Frightened of Machinery but Devoted to Machines

Experience of Equilibrium with Three Knives