Lot 117: ADOLF FASSBENDER 1884-1980

'THE ICE SERPENT'

measurements note
15 1/4 by 11 5/8 in. (38.7 by 29.6 cm.)

chloride print, matted, circa 1933, accompanied by the original mount, signed, titled, and hand-ruled by the photographer in blue pencil, signed, titled, numbered 'No. I,' and annotated 'chloride' and inscribed with six exhibition venues by him in ink and with the Museum's collection stamp, label, and accession number in an unidentified hand in pencil, on the reverse

PROVENANCE

Gift of the photographer, 1933

EXHIBITED

London, The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, 1933

Chicago, The Century of Progress International Photographic Salon, 1933

Pittsburgh, The Pittsburgh Salon of Photographic Art, 1933

Philadelphia, The International Salon of Photography, 1933

Los Angeles, All American Photographic Salon, 1933

Boston, The American Annual of Photography, 1933

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Imagination to Image, April - September 1999; and traveling thereafter to The Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, September - December 2000; and The Montclair, New Jersey, Art Museum, January - April 2001

LITERATURE

Christian A. Peterson, The Pictorial Artistry of Adolf Fassbender (Nutley: Fassbender Foundation, 1994), pl. 4