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Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
FREDERICK SOMMER (1905-1999) Dry Creek Bed. Silver print, the image measuring 7⅝x9½ inches (19.4x24.1 cm.), the mount 9¼x11 inches (23.5x27.9 cm.), with a drawing by Max Ernst in ink on mount recto. 1947
Provenance: Acquired from the photographer by Max Ernst; to Werner Spies, German-born art historian; to Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago
Spies was an expert on and friend of Max Ernst and wrote many books on him. He organized the first ever Ernst retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1975.
