HEINRICH KÜHN | Männerakt mit einer Kugel (Male Nude Holding Ball)

gum-bichromate print, framed, circa 1905

Collection of Lotte Kühn, the photographer's daughter

Lunn Gallery, Inc., Washington, D. C.

Robert Miller Gallery, New York, 1982

By descent to the present owner

Rudolf Kicken, ed., An Exhibition of One Hundred Photographs by Heinrich Kühn (Köln, 1981), pl. 80 (likely this print)

This photograph is in generally excellent condition. Upon close inspection, a few deposits, likely original retouching, are visible. The thin black edges are ever-so-slightly unevenly trimmed and there is a very small white accretion of indeterminate nature along the upper left edge. On the reverse, there are rust-colored deposits and graphite notations. Uneven faint discoloration of the reverse does not appear to affect the image. The following are written in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse: '6 o F'; 'SL'; '25' [circled]; and an illegible notation covered by a hinge remnant. The print is hinged by 2 pieces of tape along the upper edge on the reverse.
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