Dieter Appelt

a sequence of 3 photographs, each signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'e. a.' in pencil and with the photographer's studio and copyright stamps and a Kicken Pauseback Gallery, Cologne, stamp on the reverse, an artist proof from an unspecified edition, framed, Buhl Collection and Nathalie Karg, Ltd., labels on the reverse, 1984 (3)

Nathalie Karg, Ltd., New York, 1994

New York, Thread Waxing Space, Collection in Context: Selected Contemporary Photographs of Hands from the Collection of Henry M. Buhl, September - October 1996, and 8 other national and international venues through 1999 (see Appendix 1)

Marianne Courville, Collection in Context: Selected Contemporary Photographs of Hands from the Collection of Henry M. Buhl (New York, 1996), pl. 48 (this print)

These prints, on double-weight paper, are in generally excellent condition. When examined in raking light, deposits of original retouching are visible on each print.
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