Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection
Umbo (Otto Umbehr)
Mädchenkopf (Ruth, die Hand)
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25,000 - 35,000 EUR
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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection
Umbo (Otto Umbehr)
1902 - 1980
Mädchenkopf (Ruth, die Hand)
gelatin silver print, embellished in pencil on the image, title and with the photographer's credit and distribution stamps on the reverse, framed
image: 11¾ by 8½ in. (29.9 by 21.6 cm.)
frame: 18⅛ by 14¾ in. (46 by 37.5 cm.)
Executed in 1927.
Sotheby's London, Important Avant Garde Photographs of the 1920s & 1930s: The Collection of Helene Anderson, 2 May 1997, Lot 196
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Berlin, me Collectors Room Berlin, The Moment Is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection, September 2018 - January 2019
UMBO: Photographien 1925 - 1933 (Hannover: Spectrum Photogalerie, 1979), no. 20, p. 61
Gustaf Stotz et al., Film und Foto, New York, 1979, no. 907
Jeannine Fiedler, ed., Photography at the Bauhaus, Cambridge, 1990, pl. 32, p. 41
"Connoisseurs & Collections," Aperture, no. 124, Summer 1991, p. 65
Herbert Molderings, Otto Umbehr, Umbo, 1902-1980, Dusseldorf, 1995, pl. 7, p. 62, fig. 31
The Moment Is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection (Berlin: me Collectors Room Berlin, 2019), p. 57 (this print)
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