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Umbo (i.e. Otto Umbehr)

Düsseldorf 1902 – 1980 Hanover

Slippers. 1928

Gelatin silver print, circa 1976/78. 10,1 × 7,3 cm (11,1 × 8,1 cm) (4 × 2 ⅞ in. (4 ⅜ × 3 ¼ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork:  Umbo (i.e. Otto Umbehr). Slippers. 1928.

Estimate:

EUR 1,000

 

- 1,500

USD 1,180

 

- 1,770

Sold for:

2,875 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2017

Photography, Wednesday, 29.11.2017

Information

Gelatin silver print, circa 1976/78. 10,1 × 7,3 cm (11,1 × 8,1 cm) (4 × 2 ⅞ in. (4 ⅜ × 3 ¼ in.)). Annotated in pencil on the reverse: „2 BEINE, ALBERT MÜNCHEN" as well as inscriptions and numbering from different hands with blue felt-tip and ball point pen. The copyright stamp of the estate: „NACHLASS ESTATE UMBO, (OTTO UMBEHR) COPYRIGHT, PHYLLIS UMBEHR, UNTERWÖSSEN“, therein signed by Phyllis Umbehr in pencil with the date: „2000“.

Estate Umbo, circa 2001 to the current owner

Exh. cat.: UMBO. Photographien 1925-1933. Hannover. Spectrum Photogalerie im Kunstmuseum Hannover mit Sammlung Sprengel. Hannover 1979, p. 73, ill. 30 (there dated: 1928/29) / Herbert Molderings: UMBO. Vom Bauhaus zum Bildjournalismus. Düsseldorf 1995, pl. 84 / Exh. cat.: UMBO. Vom Bauhaus zum Bildjournalismus. Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen; Berlin, Bauhaus-Archiv; Frankfurt am Main, Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst; Munich, Haus der Kunst; Paris, Centre National de la Photographie, 1995/1996, pl. 45

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