Lot 85
  • 85

Gisèle Freund

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Gisèle Freund
  • 'Les mains de Suzana Soka [sic!]', 1938'James Joyce avec la loupe', 1939'Virginia Wolf', 1939'Samuel Beckett, Paris', 1964
  • photographs on paper
Trois tirages chromogéniques et un tirage argentique postérieurs. Deux tirages signés dans la marge inférieure. Quatre tirages avec le timbre sec circulaire 'GF' dans l'angle inférieur droit de l'image. Deux tirages titrés datés au verso. Quatre tirages avec le tampon coyright au verso. Un tirage avec la mention "Attention: unique exemplaire" au feutre au verso.

Provenance

Collection particulière française

Literature

Gisèle Freund, The Poetry of the Portrait, Munich, Schirmer / Mosel, 1989, ill. cover, pl. 9, 29 ('Les Mains').

Condition

The four prints are generally in very good to excellent condition. One print with a very light handling mark in the centre visible in raking light and one print with a few tiny black dots.
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