May 08, 2025 - Sale 2703

Sale 2703 - Lot 280

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
FREDERICK SOMMER (1905-1999)
Portfolio entitled The Birth of Venus. 1991-93.
Complete with 5 rich dust-grain photogravures made from the original negatives, the images measuring 9x10 to 9½x11 inches (22.9x25.4 to 24.1x27.9 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 13½x15⅛ inches (34.3x38.4 cm.), each with Sommer's signature and edition notation 3/95 in pencil on mount verso. Folio-sized printed folding wrappers; with the colophon; contents loose as issued; housed in a black cloth clamshell portfolio with paper label.
New York, New York: Kevin Begos Publishing, 1991-93

Embryology * The Birth of Venus * The Play's the Thing * Maelstrom * PortraitNew York, New York: Kevin Begos Publishing, 1991-93