Pierre Dubreuil

oil print, the photographer's monogram in pencil on the image, on a textured paper mount, titled in pencil on the mount, signed 'P. Dubreuil, M. S. L. P,' numbered 'No. 64,' and annotated 'Gernod!!! Gernod!!! . . . / Crevettes!! . . Crevettes!! . . .' in pencil and stamped 'DB 69' in red on the reverse, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, circa 1929

The Collection of Tom Jacobson, San Diego, California

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, 1994

New York, Guggenheim Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, June - September 2004, and 4 other international venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 114 and 212 (this print)

This arresting and richly-detailed photograph is on double-weight paper with a very matte surface. It is in essentially excellent condition. The print is lifting from the mount along its left edge. The corners are bumped, and there is a tiny cut in the emulsion along the lower edge. The textured paper mount is very slightly darkened at its periphery, and there is a tiny tack hole along the upper edge. Two additional exclamation points appear to have been erased from the title. There is light graphite-colored surface soiling on the reverse of the print, as well as a thin strip of acetate residue along the upper edge. 'D019/M' is written in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse.
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According to Pierre Dubreuil authority, Tom Jacobson, this is the only known oil print of this image, and it is believed to be unique.