May 27, 2021 - Sale 2570

Sale 2570 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
LOTTE JACOBI (1896-1990)
Portfolio III: Photogenics 1946-1955. Complete with 10 beautifully printed abstract works from her experimental, cameraless series entitled "photogenics." Palladium prints, the images measuring 9x7 to 9 3/4x13 inches (22.8x17.8 to 24.8x33 cm.), the sheets 10x12 to 12x15 1/4 inches (25.4x30.5 to 30.5x38.7 cm.), each with Jacobi's signature, in pencil, on recto; individually matted with the debossed plate number on the overmat. Folio-sized gray cloth clamshell box, with the photographer's name and the number 3 debossed on the cover and side; the printed title page, plate list, and colophon with Jacobi's signature and the edition notation 7/25, in ink; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 25 COPIES WITH 5 APs. Deering, New Hampshire: Lotte Jacobi, 1946-55; printed 1981

Untitled (abstraction) * Landscape * Untitled (abstraction) * Praying Hands * Untitled (abstraction) * Birdform * Mask * Untitled (abstraction) * Sunset * Bird in Flight - Homage to Brancusi.

Additional Details

Acquired from Sotheby's, New York in 1987; to a Private Midwest Collector.