Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
FREDERICK SOMMER | 'LIVIA'
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October 1, 06:46 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
FREDERICK SOMMER
1905-1999
'LIVIA'
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed, titled, and dated in pencil on the reverse, 1948
image: 7⅝ by 9⅜ in. (19.4 by 23.8 cm.)
The photographer to Faurest Davis
Acquired from the above, 1981
By descent to the present owner
Aperture 10:4, 1962, p. 138
John Weiss, ed., Venus, Jupiter & Mars: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer (Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum, 1980), pl. 24
John Weiss, ed., Exhibition Checklist, A Supplement to Venus, Jupiter & Mars: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer (Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum, 1980), fig. 33
Sommer: Images (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1980), pl. 48
Keith F. Davis, The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage (Prescott and New Haven, 2005), cover and p. 41
Peter Turner, American Images: Photography 1945-1980 (London, 1985), p. 51
Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2000), p. 50