Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Juan Hamilton: Passage

Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Juan Hamilton: Passage

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 43. AFTER AUGUSTE RODIN | SELECTED COLLOTYPES FOR 'CAMERA WORK' NOS. 34/35.

AFTER AUGUSTE RODIN | SELECTED COLLOTYPES FOR 'CAMERA WORK' NOS. 34/35

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March 5, 05:19 PM GMT

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8,000 - 12,000 USD

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AFTER AUGUSTE RODIN

1840 - 1917

SELECTED COLLOTYPES FOR 'CAMERA WORK' NOS. 34/35


a group of 17 collotypes printed by Bruckmann Verlag, Munich, accompanied by two paper wrappers: one signed Alfred Stieglitz 291 and annotated in pencil Set of Hand Pulled Proofs / Rodin Drawings / for Camera Work - no's 33/34 [sic]. / Reproduced at Bruckmann Verlag, / Munich and The only other complete set / of these proofs I gave to Steichen; the other wrapper annotated in pencil by Stieglitz Hand Pulled Proofs / Rodin Drawings / for Camera Work 33/34 [sic]. / Property of G. O'Keeffe and written in another hand, possibly that of Georgia O'Keeffe, in pencil OK

collographic proofs printed in colors on 17 sheets of laid paper, some with double-sided images and one proof trimmed and mounted to card

Each sheet: 16 ½ by 10 ¾ inches or the reverse

(41.9 by 27.3 cm or the reverse)

Executed in 1911.

Alfred Stieglitz, New York

Georgia O'Keeffe, Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1946 (by descent)

By descent to the present owner

Alfred Stieglitz, ed., Camera Work 34/35 (1911): various pages, illustrated

In No. 34/35 of 'Camera Work' (April-July 1911), Alfred Stieglitz included 2 photogravures and 7 collographic reproductions of Auguste Rodin's studies of dancers. Stieglitz had previously presented two exhibitions of Rodin's drawings at 291 in 1908 and 1910. The idea to include reproductions of his drawings in 'Camera Work' developed out of these installations. The paper wrappers included with this lot note that it contains the only complete set of lithographic proofs besides a set that Stieglitz had given to fellow photographer Edward Steichen.


In 1908 Georgia O'Keeffe visited 291 for the first time in order to see the exhibition of Rodin's drawings, which greatly impressed her. That she kept these proofs in her possession until the end of her life speaks to her deep admiration for the French master's work.