Japan
Views of landscapes, people and temples of Japan
Lot 4216
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2.500€ (US$ 2,841)
Photographer unknown. Landscapes, people and temples of Japan. Circa 1910. 54 hand-colored platinum prints. Each circa 22 x 29 cm and reverse. Some with title and number in the negative in lower edge, mounted to album pages, a few annotated in German in ink in upper corner on mount, bound in contemporary silk album (rubbed, frayed in edges) with cord binding. 31 x 43 cm.
This highly attractive album includes picturesque landscapes, genre scenes and people on farms and farming. The hand-colored platinum prints are of an exquisite quality and unusually fine. – Some prints buckled from glue, a few with light stains from glue on verso, a few with light fading in edges, otherwise most in good to very good condition.
Joseph Beuys. 1970/printed 1990. Ferrotyped gelatin silver print. 49,5 x 40 cm. Signed, editioned and dated by the photographer in ink in lower right edge; photographer's copyright stamp and editioned 5/15 in pencil on verso, mounted to grey card, editioned 5/15 in pencil below image on mount.
In very good condition.
"Die beiden Mädchen" (The Two Girls). 1980s. Vintage gelatin silver print. 18 x 23,8 cm. Photographer's stamp on the verso.
Some emulsion loss in side margins, a few crease marks in upper corners, light fold mark in lower left, otherwise in good condition.
Lit.: Wolfgang Jean Stock (ed.). Großstadt Dschungel (exhibition catalog) Munich 1983, ill. p. 83.
Les Cahiers du Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, no. 32 summer 1990, ill. front cover.
Berlin Wall. 1989. Vintage gelatin silver print. 17,7 x 23,8 cm. Photographer's stamp on the verso.
A few indentation marks, otherwise in good condition.
Krolow, Wolfgang
Portraits of the photographer Wolfgang Krolow
Lot 4224
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1.125€ (US$ 1,278)
Photographer: Ernst Volland and Peter Hebler. Portraits of the photographer Wolfgang Krolow. 1984/85. 2 gelatin silver prints. 40,5 x 30 cm and 30 x 40 cm. Each signed, titled and dated by the photographer in pencil and 1 with photographer's stamp (Hebler) on the verso.
In very good condition.
Kühn, Heinrich
Still Life with Cat Figure and Hydrangeas
Lot 4226
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1.875€ (US$ 2,131)
Still Life with Cat Figure and Hydrangeas. Circa 1920. Oil transfer print on Japan. 29,7 x 21,5 cm (33,5 x 28 cm). Signed by the photographer in pencil in lower right in the margin.
Minimal foxing, otherwise in very good condition.
Lit.: Rudolf Kicken (ed.). Eine Ausstellung von hundert Photographien. Cologne 1981, ill. p. 56.
Still Life with Dahlias. Circa 1915. Oil transfer print on Japan. 28,5 x 21 cm (34 x 26,5 cm).
A fine tonal print in excellent condition.
Lit.: Peter Weiermair (ed.). Heinrich Kühn. 1866-1944. Photographien, Innsbruck 1978, ill. plate 87.
Lebeck, Robert
Konrad Adenauer an seinem 90. Geburtstag in Bonn am 4.1.1966
Lot 4234
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625€ (US$ 710)
"Konrad Adenauer an seinem 90. Geburtstag in Bonn am 4.1.1966". Printed later. Gelatin silver print. 25,5 x 37,5 cm (30,3 x 40 cm). Signed, titled and dated by the photographer in pencil and photographer's label on the verso.
A few light handling marks, otherwise in very good condition.
Lit.: Tete Böttger (ed.). Robert Lebeck: Vis-à-vis. Göttingen 1999.
Lebeck, Robert
Jackie Kennedy and Lee Radziwill
Lot 4235
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1.500€ (US$ 1,705)
"Jackie Kennedy and Lee Radziwill, Bob Kennedy's Funeral, New York". 1968/printed 1990s. Large-format gelatin silver print. 58 x 39 cm (60,5 x 50,5 cm). Signed, titled, dated by the photographer in pencil and photographer's stamp on the verso.
Light handling marks, otherwise in very good condition.
Lit.: Augenzeuge Robert Lebeck. 30 Jahre Zeitgeschichte. Munich and Lucern 1984.
Berlin, Mauer Potsdamer Platz. 1966/printed 1990s. Gelatin silver print. 30,5 x 40,3 cm. Photographer's stamp and signed, dated and titled by the photographer in pencil on the verso.
Slightly buckled in edges, a few handling creases near right edge, otherwise in very good condition.
Leibovitz, Annie
Cindy Crawford, New York
Lot 4237 [*]
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625€ (US$ 710)
"Cindy Crawford, New York". 1993/printed 2010. Archival pigment print on double weight paper. 27,5 x 21 cm. Photographer's/copyright stamp and signed/dated by Cindy Crawford in pencil on the verso.
In excellent condition.
Lit.: Annie Leibovitz. A Photographer's Life. 1990-2005. New York 2006.
"Rückenakt, Berlin". 1995/printed 2017. Gelatin silver print. 20,6 x 20,5 cm (39,6 x 29,7 cm). Signed, titled, dated, and editioned 8/20 the photographer in pencil on the verso.
This image is from the series: "Die Schönheit der Frauen. Photographische Freilichtstudien". – A fine tonal print in very good condition.
"Osterputz". 1939/printed 1960s. Gelatin silver print. 24,5 x 23 cm. Photographer's stamp on the verso.
Creases in right edge and upper left corner, traces of previous label on verso.
"Two Cats Sleeping in Florence". 1955/printed later. Gelatin silver print on Agfa paper. 30 x 44,2 cm (40,5 x 50,5 cm). Signed, titled and dated by the photographer in pencil on the verso.
Stronger crease in upper left corner in margin, handling crease in lower margin, a few minimal handling marks, otherwise in very good condition.
Provenance: Directly from the photographer to the present owner.
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