Lot 2139: Sasha Stone (i.e. Aleksander Serge Steinsapir), Nu

Sasha Stone (i.e. Aleksander Serge Steinsapir), Nus, Each photo mounted individually along its upper edge onto cream-coloured mount cardboard (dimensions each approx. 24 x 21 cm). Grouped into three portfolios containing 6, 7 and 11 photographs respectively. These portfolios each made of cream-coloured cardboard, each with another photograph laid down on the cover, and inscribed in black coloured pencil on the cover upper right (by an unknown hand): “sasha stone nus“. Numbered on the interior in pencil. A total of 9 photographs with the photographer’s stamp on the reverse: “REPRODUCTION INTERDITE/Les Tirages Photo?graphiques/Dir.-Techn.: Cami STONE/1, Rue de Dublin, XL./Tél.: 11.01.89“. Portfolios each with the remains of a transparent dust jacket, 27 gelatin silver prints by Cami Stone in 3 portfolios, presumably circa 1950, Circa 1932, 3 1/2 x 5 3/8 in. (3 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.) until 5 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (6 1/8 x 4 7/8 in.)

Minimal small remnants of glue in the portfolios. One portfolio with slight foxing on the reverse. Isolated individual photos with minimal scuff marks

Sasha Stone, Fotografien 1925-39, ed. Eckhardt Köhn, Serie Folkwang, Berlin 1990, p. 92/Birgit Hammers, Sasha Stone sieht noch mehr. Ein Fotograf zwischen Kunst und Kommerz, Petersberg 2014, p. 155, ill. 204 (detail), p. 156, ill. 206 and ill. 208 (larger detail)