FREDERICK SOMMER (1905–1999)

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ID 1134385
Lot 147 | FREDERICK SOMMER (1905–1999)
FREDERICK SOMMER (1905–1999)

Coyotes, 1945

gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed later

signed, titled, and dated (twice) in pencil (mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed Sir Elton John Photography collection label (frame backing board)

image/sheet: 7 ½ x 9 1⁄2 in. (19.05 x 24.13 cm.)

mount: 12 ½ x 14 ½ in. (31.1 x 36.8 cm.)





Provenance

Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles;

acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007.



Literature

Venus, Jupiter & Mars: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, 1980, pl. 17.

Exhibition catalogue Sommer: Images, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1984, n.p.

Keith Davis, The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage, Yale University Press, New Haven, p. 77.
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