Louis Jean Baptiste Igout

albumen print comprised of 16 images printed by A. Calavas from negatives by Igout, mounted, the publisher's credit and address in letterpress on the mount, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, 1880s

Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, 1995

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)

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Show of Hands: Photographs and Sculpture from the Buhl Collection, January - March 2008

Seoul, South Korea, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Asian tour), March - May 2009, and 2 other Asian venues through 2011 (see Appendix 1)

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 40, 111, and 224 (this print)

Grading this albumen print on a scale of 1 to 10 -- 10 being an albumen print that has deep brown dark tones and highlights that retain all of their original detail -- this print rates 7. The tones remain strong and with rich detail in the center images, but have lost some intensity in the outer images. This album leaf is in generally very good to excellent condition. A thin piece of paper tape runs the length of the leaf along the left edge. In letterpress is the following: 'A. Calavas Editeur, - 68, Rue de Lafayette, PARIS.' The mount is age-appropriately darkened at the periphery of the front and on the reverse. On the reverse of the mount, '80-' and '38' are written in an unidentifed hand in pencil.
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A portion of this plate was reproduced in 1934 in the Surrealist publication Minotaure, to illustrate an article by Georges Hugnet (Minotaure 2, No. 5, May 1934, p. 30).