(COLLAGE) A leaf containing 2 collages from the Obsession al

Sale 1931 - Lot 25

Unsold

Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

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A leaf containing 2 collages from the "Obsession" album, mounted recto-verso. Albumen prints, 4 1/4 to 5 1/4x8 1/2 inches, each leaf with 3 original photographs. 1860s

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A pair of autobiographical collages in which slicing plays prominent formal and self-referential roles. (It is a necessary component of the work of art and also essential to the pictures themselves). The first shows the maker, a mustachioed man in a loincloth, lying down alongside herbs and plants, with a pair of images showing a woman's hand on a table--attached and detached from her arm. Below the final print is an axe and knife. The companion leaf depicts the barechested artist in a butcher's apron, which is juxtaposed to a tableau of the woman's head, now detached from her body, and set on a table; a scimitar boldly sits below it. The final picture is of the sleeping man, now in a striped shirt, wearing the apron.<