Baron Adolf De Meyer

Lot 122: DE MEYER, BARON ADOLF

Name: DE MEYER, BARON ADOLF
Brand: Swann Auction Galleries
SKU: lgyoqs5zwd

Est: $10,000 USD - $15,000 USD

Swann Auction GalleriesNew York, NY, USOctober 21, 2002

Item Overview

Description

The Silver Cap. Silver print, 13 3/4 x8 inches (34.9x20.3 cm.), with De Meyer's signature, in pencil, on recto; and titled and dated by the photographer, in pencil, with an Eastman Kodak hand stamp on verso. 1908; printed circa 1940

Artist or Maker

Baron Adolf De Meyer

Notes

In 1940, 6 years before De Meyer's death, the film actor Edward G. Robinson and his wife arranged to mount an exhibition of De Meyer's prints in their home. In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz, De Meyer asked to borrow several of his vintage prints for this special exhibition. According to the letter, De Meyer had destroyed many negatives and prints in 1935 after being dismissed by "Harper's Bazaar" magazine. Unable to produce enough vintage work for the show, he had a number of the images reprinted on large sheets of Kodak paper.

This image was reproduced in a singular elegance, the photographs of baron adolph de meyer (New York, 1994), unpaginated.

Auction Details

IMPORTANT 19TH & 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS

Swann Auction Galleries

October 21, 2002, 12:00 AM EST

104 East 25th Street, New York, NY, 10010, US

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