Oct 17, 2013 - Sale 2325

Sale 2325 - Lot 14

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET (1815-1879)
"Three Cingalese Girls." Albumen print, 10 3/8x8 1/4 inches (26.4x21 cm.), with a Barnett/Bell Collection inscription, in ink, on mount verso. 1875-1878
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From the Angelica Bell/David Garnett Collection; to the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, 1976; to the Paul F. Walter Collection; to Sotheby's, London, May 2001.
In 1875 Cameron returned to the East, where she was born and had spent much of her life. She settled in the village Kalutara, Sri Lanka, and photographed many of the local inhabitants. Fewer than 30 of these late Sir Lankan portraits are known, of which this tender, ethereal portrait is a rare and important example.
This print was exhibited at the Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, in their exhibition "100 Drawings and Photographs," from November 2-December 22, 2001 (it is also reproduced in the catalogue accompanying the exhibit).
Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs, cat. no. 1215, 492.
Julia Margaret Cameron (George Eastman House, 1986), 75.