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December 4, 03:40 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 USD

Lot Details

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Ruth Bernhard

1905 - 2006

'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: 13 3/4 by 10 1/2 in. (34.9 by 26.7 cm.)

frame: 20 1/4 by 16 1/4 in. (54 by 41.3 cm.)

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