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RUTH BERNHARD
Two Forms
gelatin silver print, mounted to black board, signed in pencil on the mount, signed and dated in pencil, titled in ink, the photographer's '2982 Clay Street, San Francisco, California, 94115’ studio stamp and red monogram chop on the reverse, framed, 1963; accompanied by a Ginny Williams Gallery label (2)
image: 13¾ by 10½ in. (34.9 by 26.7 cm.)
framed: 20¼ by 16¼ in. (54 by 41.3 cm.)
LITERATURE
James Alinder, Collecting Light: The Photographs of Ruth Bernhard (Carmel, 1979), pl. 29
Ruth Bernhard: The Eternal Body: A Collection of Fifty Nudes (San Francisco, 1986), pl. 25
Ginny Williams, Ruth Bernhard: The Collection of Ginny Williams (Denver, 1993), pl. 19
Margaretta K. Mitchell, Ruth Bernard: Between Art & Life (San Francisco, 2000), p. 102
For all enquiries, please contact Aimee.Pflieger@sothebys.com
Guaranteed Property
The seller of lots with this symbol has been guaranteed a minimum price from one auction or a series of auctions. This guarantee may be provided by Sotheby’s or jointly by Sotheby’s and a third party. Sotheby’s and any third parties providing a guarantee jointly with Sotheby’s benefit financially if a guaranteed lot is sold successfully and may incur a loss if the sale is not successful. A third party providing a guarantee jointly with Sotheby's may provide an irrevocable bid, or otherwise bid, on the guaranteed property. If this online-only auction has a printed and/or PDF catalogue and the Guaranteed Property symbol for a lot is not included in that catalogue, the symbol will be included on the lot’s specific webpage and a notice will be added to the Sotheby’s webpage for the auction. If every lot in the online-only auction catalogue is guaranteed, this will be included on the webpage for the auction and, where there is a printed and/or PDF catalogue the Important Notices in that catalogue will state this and this symbol will not be used for each lot.
Two Forms
gelatin silver print, mounted to black board, signed in pencil on the mount, signed and dated in pencil, titled in ink, the photographer's '2982 Clay Street, San Francisco, California, 94115’ studio stamp and red monogram chop on the reverse, framed, 1963; accompanied by a Ginny Williams Gallery label (2)
image: 13¾ by 10½ in. (34.9 by 26.7 cm.)
framed: 20¼ by 16¼ in. (54 by 41.3 cm.)
LITERATURE
James Alinder, Collecting Light: The Photographs of Ruth Bernhard (Carmel, 1979), pl. 29
Ruth Bernhard: The Eternal Body: A Collection of Fifty Nudes (San Francisco, 1986), pl. 25
Ginny Williams, Ruth Bernhard: The Collection of Ginny Williams (Denver, 1993), pl. 19
Margaretta K. Mitchell, Ruth Bernard: Between Art & Life (San Francisco, 2000), p. 102
For all enquiries, please contact Aimee.Pflieger@sothebys.com
Guaranteed Property
The seller of lots with this symbol has been guaranteed a minimum price from one auction or a series of auctions. This guarantee may be provided by Sotheby’s or jointly by Sotheby’s and a third party. Sotheby’s and any third parties providing a guarantee jointly with Sotheby’s benefit financially if a guaranteed lot is sold successfully and may incur a loss if the sale is not successful. A third party providing a guarantee jointly with Sotheby's may provide an irrevocable bid, or otherwise bid, on the guaranteed property. If this online-only auction has a printed and/or PDF catalogue and the Guaranteed Property symbol for a lot is not included in that catalogue, the symbol will be included on the lot’s specific webpage and a notice will be added to the Sotheby’s webpage for the auction. If every lot in the online-only auction catalogue is guaranteed, this will be included on the webpage for the auction and, where there is a printed and/or PDF catalogue the Important Notices in that catalogue will state this and this symbol will not be used for each lot.