Apr 19, 2018 - Sale 2474

Sale 2474 - Lot 331

Price Realized: $ 1,950
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
FREDERICK SOMMER (1905-1999)
Portfolio entitled The Birth Of Venus.
Complete with 5 rich dust-grain photogravures made from the original negatives, the images measuring 9x10 to 9 1/2x11 inches (22.9x25.4 to 24.1x27.9 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 13 1/2x15 1/8 inches (34.3x38.4 cm.), each with Sommer's signature and edition notation 45/95, in pencil, on mount verso. Folio-sized printed folding wrappers; with the colophon; contents loose as issued.
New York, New York: Kevin Begos Publishing, 1991-93

Additional Details

Embryology The Birth of Venus The Play's the Thing Maelstrom Portrait.