Lot 55
  • 55

José Maria Sert

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

Description

  • José Maria Sert
  • Etude pour 'Le triomphe du travail ou Le Progrès américain', panneau du décor Les Triomphes de l'humanité, 1937
  • photograph
Tirage argentique unique d'époque. Avec mise au carreau et rehauts au pastel noir au recto. Avec quatre dessins au crayon et pastel noir et annoté au crayon au verso.

Provenance

Atelier de l'artiste
Collection André Jammes

Literature

José Maria Sert: Le Titan à l'oeuvre, cat. expo., Paris, Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris/Paris-Musées, 2012, p. 154, ill. p. 160, pl. 113;
L' art de la fresque de José Maria Sert (1874-1945): photographies inédites, Paris, Jacques Damase, 1990, ill. p. 8-9;
Jose Maria Sert: 1874-1945, cat. expo., Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez, 1987, ill. p. 246.

Condition

This silver print is in very good general condition. Both right corners and the edges are very slightly worn. The four corners with pinholes due to the enlargement process. With a few very light handling marks all over the surface, and a few very light cracks in the gelatin layer only visible in raking light.
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Catalogue Note

Hall du RCA Building, New York.