August Sander

Künstlerporträts [Portraits of Artists]

New York Gantry Point Warehouse

Lot Closed

April 10, 02:27 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

About Face: The David and Gail Mixer Collection of Photographs

August Sander

1876 - 1964

Künstlerporträts [Portraits of Artists]

(Munich: Schirmer, Mosel, 1974, an edition of 75 plus 6 artist's proofs), the complete portfolio of 12 gelatin silver prints, each embossed on the image, stamped, signed, dated, and editioned '40' by Gunther Sander in pencil on the reverse; together with the printed colophon in original and portfolio case

images: 11¼ by 8½ in. (28.6 by 21.6 cm.)

Executed in 1924-30, printed in 1974.

Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Anjli Patel at Anjli.Patel@sothebys.com

Robert Klein Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 1997

The plates are as follows:

The Painter Gottfried Brockmann, 1924

The Painter Willi Bongartz, 1924

The Painter Gerd Arntz, 1929

The Painters Anton Räderscheidt and Marta Hegemann, 1924

The Painter Franz Wilhelm Siewert, 1928

The Dadaist Raoul Hausmann, Posing, 1930

The Dadaist Raoul Hausmann, Sitting, 1930

The Painter Heinrich Hoerle, 1929

The Painter Otto Dix and Wife, 1926