?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
RUTH BERNHARD (1905-2006) The Eternal Body, a portfolio of ten photographs dedicated to the memory of Edward Weston. With 9 (of 10) silver prints, the images measuring 3 3/4x9 1/2 inches (9.5x24.1 cm.) and 10x7 3/8 inches (25.4x18.7 cm), the mounts 16 7/8x14 inches (42.9x35.6 cm.), each with Bernhard's signature and edition notion 8/15 in pencil on mount recto and the title and print number in pencil on mount verso. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 15. Folio-sized brown linen box with the red-stamped monogram; the colophon with the plate list and Bernhard's signature and print date in ink; the contents loose as issued. Self-published, 1946-75; printed 1976
Classic Torso, 1952 * Hips Horizontal, 1975 * Luminous Body, 1962 * Draped Torso, 1962 * Sand Dune, 1967 * Triangles, 1946 * Perspective, 1967 * At the Pool, 1951 * In the Box, 1962
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
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