Lot 102
  • 102

Ruth Bernhard

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Ruth Bernhard
  • 'CREATION'
  • Gelatin silver print
mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, signed, titled, and dated in pencil on the reverse, framed, the Buhl Collection label on the reverse, 1936, printed later (Gift of the Commonplace, p. 7)

Provenance

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, 1994

Exhibited

Palm Beach Photographic Centre, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, March 2011

Middletown, Delaware, Warner Gallery at St. Andrew's School, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, October - November 2011

Condition

This photograph, mounted to thin board, is in generally excellent condition. There is a 3-inch crease in the lower portion of the mount, not affecting the image.
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