Lot 43
  • 43

Germaine Krull (1897-1985)

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Germaine Krull
  • Two variant profile studies of Berthe Krull, late 1920s
Vintage silver prints, each mounted on card. Each signed in pencil on the mount. The sitter (the artist's sister) identified in an another hand on the reverse of each mount, and the date there given as 1927 or 1928.

Provenance

From Berthe Krull to the present owner.

Condition

Some silvering is visible on both prints. There is a small, approx. 3mm diameter, circular stain on the illustrated print in the area of the sitter's ear. The other print has a couple of chips to emulsion along the upper edge. Retouching visible on both in a line running parallel to the right print edge (seen in the catalogue illustration). Both attractive prints.
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