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Ruth Bernhard
'In the Box - horizontal'
Lot Closed
March 17, 05:39 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ruth Bernhard
1905 - 2006
'In the Box - horizontal'
signed Ruth Bernhard (on the front and reverse of the mount); titled In the Box - horizontal (on the reverse of the mount); and dated 1962 (on the reverse of the mount)
gelatin silver print, mounted
7½ by 13½ in.
19.1 by 34.3 cm.
Executed in 1962 and printed later.
Ginny Williams, Denver
Acquired from the above by the present owner
James Alinder, Collecting Light: The Photographs of Ruth Bernhard, Carmel, 1979, pl. 27, illustrated
Ruth Bernhard and Margaretta Mitchell, Ruth Bernhard: The Eternal Body: A Collection of Fifty Nudes, San Francisco, 1986, pl. 19 and reverse dust jacket, illustrated
Ginny Williams, Ruth Bernhard: The Collection of Ginny Williams, Denver, 1993, pl. 32, illustrated
Margaretta K. Mitchell, Ruth Bernard: Between Art & Life, San Francisco, 2000, pp. 13 and 104, illustrated