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MARGRETHE MATHER | FRAYNE WILLIAMS (AS 'ANATOL')

Lot Closed

April 3, 04:42 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection, Sold to Benefit The Asia Foundation

MARGRETHE MATHER

1886-1952

FRAYNE WILLIAMS (AS 'ANATOL')


palladium print, tipped to a buff mount, signed in pencil on the mount, framed, a Michael Shapiro Photographs label on the reverse, 1920

9½ by 7¼ in. (24.1 by 18.4 cm.)

By descent to the heirs of Frayne Williams

Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco

Joel Soroka Gallery, Aspen, 2000

Collection of Richard Schenk

By descent to the estate of Richard Schenk

Gitterman Gallery, New York

Michael Shapiro Photographs, Westport, 2014

John Paul Edwards, 'The Eighth Pittsburgh Salon,' Photo Era (May 1921), p. 220

Beth Gates Warren, Margrethe Mather & Edward Weston: A Passionate Collaboration (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2001), pl. 32, p. 71 (this print)

Beth Gates Warren, Artful Lives: Edward Weston, Margrethe Mather, and the Bohemians of Los Angeles (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011), fig. 58, p. 200

Other prints of this image are in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.