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Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds

Dmitri Baltermants

Grief, Kerch

Lot Closed

April 10, 03:16 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds

Dmitri Baltermants

1912 - 1990

Grief, Kerch


gelatin silver print, the photographer's credit stamp in Cyrillic on the reverse

image: 11 by 15⅛ in. (27.9 by 38.4cm.)

Executed in 1943, printing date unknown.

Collection of William Broyles, Jr.

Gift of the above to the present owner

Anri Surenovich Vartanov, Antologia Sovetskoi Fotografii, Vol. 2 (Madrid, 1987), p. 70

Daniel Wolf and Mike Weaver, The Art of Photography, 1839-1989 (London: The Royal Academy of Arts, 1989), pl. 422

"A Rare Look at the Eastern Front: The William Broyles, Jr. Collection," The Acolade, September/October 2005, p. 48 (this print)

Marie-France Bouhours and Anne Ganteführer-Trier, La trajectories du regard: Une collection de photographies du XXe siècle (Cologne, 2006), p. 24

David Schneer, Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph (New York, 2020), cover