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Frederick Sommer
Eight Young Roosters
Eight Young Roosters
1938
gelatin silver print 7½ h × 9½ w in (19 × 24 cm)
gelatin silver print 7½ h × 9½ w in (19 × 24 cm)
estimate: $6,000–8,000
result: $6,875
Signed, titled and dated to verso ‘Eight Young Roosters, 1938 Frederick Sommer’. This work is a later printing by the artist.
provenance: Acquired from Frederick Sommer by Andrew Roth of Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, New York, 1997 | Acquired from the previous by Nancy Richardson in 1997 | Sotheby's, Photographs from the Collection of Nancy Richardson, 16 October 2007, Lot 76 | Private Collection
literature: Frederick Sommer, Philadelphia College of Art (exhibition catalog), pg. 16 illustrates another example The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage, Davis, pg. 75 illustrates another example Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House, Mulligan and Wooters, pg. 648 illustrates another example