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Ruth Bernhard

'Two Forms'

Lot Closed

November 16, 12:36 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Ruth Bernhard

1905 - 2006

'Two Forms'


gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, signed, titled, and dated in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1963, printed later

image: 34.6 by 26 cm (13⅝ by 10¼ in.)

frame: 60.3 by 50.2 cm (23¾ by 19¾ in.)

Acquired directly from the photographer by the present owner

Alinder, James, Collecting Light: The Photographs of Ruth Bernhard (The Friends of Photography, 1979), pl. 28

Bernhard, Ruth, The Eternal Body: A Collection of Fifty Nudes (San Francisco, 1986), pl.25

Ruth Bernhard: The Collection of Ginny Williams (Santa Fe: The Ginny Williams Foundation, 1993), pl. 19

K. Mitchell, Margaretta, Ruth Bernhard: Between Art & Life (San Francisco, 2000), pg. 102