Oct 18, 2018 - Sale 2489

Sale 2489 - Lot 120

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
RUTH BERNHARD (1905-2006)
Classic Torso. Silver print, the image measuring 13 1/2x10 1/2 inches (34.3x26.7 cm.), the mount 19 1/2x15 1/2 inches (49.5x39.4 cm.), with Bernhard's signature, in pencil, on mount recto and her signature, title, and negative date, in pencil, on mount verso. 1952; printed 1980s
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Additional Details

Acquired Sotheby's, October 20, 1981, lot 20; to a Private New York Collector.

Bernhard, The Eternal Body (Chronicle Books), pl. 12.

Mitchell, Ruth Bernhard: Between Art and Life (Chronicle Books), p. 64.