LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Platinum print on tissue, tipped to the original paper mount

Measurements:

12.76 in. (32.40 cm.) (height) by 9.61 in. (24.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed in pencil on the recto. Accompanied by the original backing board inscribed and signed in ink by the original owner, 'This portrait of Auguste Rodin was given me by the photographer Gertrude Käsebier-July 7th 1906, New York. Sara Andrew Schafer' and in a second hand in ink and pencil, 'To Elizabeth H. Wilson. Given me by Mother of Sara Schafer, 1918. E. H. Wilson. '.

Literature:

Davis, An American Century of Photograph, From Dry-Plate to Digital: The Hallmark Photographic Collection, pl. 90; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Gertrude Käsebier: The Photographer and Her Photographs, pl. 73

Provenance:

Directly from the artist; to the collection of Sara Andrew Schafer, New York; to the collection of Elizabeth H. Wilson; Sotheby's, New York, 28 April 1999, lot 49