Lot 18
  • 18

Germaine Krull

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Germaine Krull
  • La Tour Eiffel, vers 1927
  • photograph
Tirage argentique d'époque. Avec le tampon 'Germaine Krull Mention Obligatoire' et titré La Tour au crayon au verso. Monté sous passe-partout et encadré.

Provenance

Galerie Sage Paris
Collection particulière française

Exhibited

Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles, Musée Réattu, 1988, Arles
Musée d’Orsay, Gustave Eiffel, le magicien du fer, Mai-Août. 2009
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, Formes simples, Juin-Nov. 2014
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Simple Forms, Contemplating Beauty, Avr.-Juil., 2015

Literature

Christian Bouqueret, Germaine Krull, Photographie 1924-1936, Arles, Musées d'Arles, 1988, ill. p. 69 (variante) ;
Kim Sichel, Germaine Krull, Photographer of Modernity, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, et Londres, 1999, pl. 69, page 181.

Condition

This silver print is in excellent condition except two very light scratches hardly visible in raking light only.
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