ADOLF FASSBENDER - The White Night - Original vintage
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Artist: Adolf Fassbender (German/American, 1884 - 1980).
Title: "The White Night [New York City]".
Medium: Original vintage photogravure.
Date: Composed 1930-34. Printed 1937.
Dimensions: Image size: 11 x 7 5/8 in. (279 x 194 mm).
Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's signature, lower right recto. Edition of 1,000. High-grade archival paper. Ample margins. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition. Comment(s): Another impression of this photogravure sold for $978 at Christie's, East (Photographs, Sale #8241) - 06/09/1999 - lot #76. The gelatin silver print sold for $23,970 (€16,250) at Sotheby's, Paris, 9/23/2009, lot #67. Fassbender was a successful professional photographer, a leading proponent of pictorialism, and a popular teacher of photography. He was in the top echelon of American pictorial photographers during the 1930s and 1940s, was exhibited internationally, and was widely reproduced in photographic periodicals. He was a founding member of the Photographic Society of America and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (F.R.P.S.). Fassbender was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame in 1980. The image celebrates Christmas in Central Park. [6480-3-600]
Title: "The White Night [New York City]".
Medium: Original vintage photogravure.
Date: Composed 1930-34. Printed 1937.
Dimensions: Image size: 11 x 7 5/8 in. (279 x 194 mm).
Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's signature, lower right recto. Edition of 1,000. High-grade archival paper. Ample margins. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition. Comment(s): Another impression of this photogravure sold for $978 at Christie's, East (Photographs, Sale #8241) - 06/09/1999 - lot #76. The gelatin silver print sold for $23,970 (€16,250) at Sotheby's, Paris, 9/23/2009, lot #67. Fassbender was a successful professional photographer, a leading proponent of pictorialism, and a popular teacher of photography. He was in the top echelon of American pictorial photographers during the 1930s and 1940s, was exhibited internationally, and was widely reproduced in photographic periodicals. He was a founding member of the Photographic Society of America and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (F.R.P.S.). Fassbender was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame in 1980. The image celebrates Christmas in Central Park. [6480-3-600]
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ADOLF FASSBENDER - The White Night - Original vintage
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