Serbonne 1903 Halftone by Gertrude Kasebier from Camera Work I
$ 171.6
Description
Serbonne was taken by American photographer Gertrude Kasebier (1852-1934) around 1900, with a gum print dated that year and held by MOMA. This halftone plate was included in Camera Work I and published in 1903, and is rarely offered for sale. Some wonderful insight for this photograph From the Cleveland Museum of Art website, which holds a 1901 platinum print of the image: "Serbonne borrows its composition and setting from two famous and infamous paintings: Manet’s Dejeuner Sur l’Herbe and Titian’s Concert Champetre." Description "In summer 1901, photographer Gertrude Käsebier and her daughter, an art student, traveled to France and became fast friends with American painter and photographer Edward Steichen (on the left).This posed photograph, taken in the woods of Serbonne outside Paris, documents one of their adventures. Käsebier replaced the textures of the tree bark, grass, and fabric with an overall texture on her negative so that the photograph appears to be composed of brushstrokes, associating her creation with artistic transformation rather than a recording of reality." Printed: 1903 Condition: Very Good Dimensions : image: 18.0 x 14.0 cm on coated paper stock support: 30.1 x 20.6 cm on grey paper stock The print will be carefully mounted and sandwiched for shipment between two pieces of acid-free mounting board. Unless Buy it Now applies to this item, PhotoSeed Gallery does not end auctions early.
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