Ruth Bernhard
Violet Snail Shell
No reserve
Lot Closed
December 18, 07:56 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ruth Bernhard
1905 - 2006
Violet Snail Shell
gelatin silver print, mounted to Crescent illustration board, signed in pencil, signed and titled and with the photographer's '2982 Clay Street San Francisco, California 94115' stamp on the reverse, framed, a Shapiro Gallery label on the reverse, 1943
image: 10¼ by 13½ in. (26 by 34.3 cm.)
frame: 20¼ by 23 in. (51.4 by 58.4 cm.)
The Photographer
Collection of Price Rice (acquired from the above)
Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, 2004
Another print of Violet Snail Shell is held in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum.