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Frederick Sommer

'Negative #30 "Jack Rabbit"'

Lot Closed

April 21, 02:25 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Frederick Sommer

1905 - 1999

'Negative #30 "Jack Rabbit"'



gelatin silver print, mounted, signed, titled, and dated in pencil on the reverse, 1938

image: 7 ⅝ by 9 ½ in. (19.4 by 25.1 cm.)

Collection of Charles and Florence Tracy, Prescott, Arizona

By descent to the present owner

Frederick Sommer (Philadelphia College of Art, 1968), p. 11

John Weiss, ed., Venus, Jupiter & Mars: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer (Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum, 1980), pl. 15

John Weiss, ed., Exhibition Checklist, A Supplement to Venus, Jupiter & Mars: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer (Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum, 1980), fig. 4

Sommer: Images (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1984), pl. 24

Keith F. Davis, The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage (Prescott and New Haven, 2005), p. 51