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2038

Josef Breitenbach

Munich 1896 – 1984 New York

"Jeune fille en Deuil“ [Actress Edith Schultze- Westrum]. 1932

Vintage. Gelatin silver print, exhibition print. 39,8 × 29,7 cm (15 ⅝ × 11 ¾ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Josef Breitenbach.

Estimate:

EUR 1,000

 

- 1,500

USD 1,080

 

- 1,610

Sold for:

1,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2020

Photography, Thursday, 09.07.2020

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Vintage. Gelatin silver print, exhibition print. 39,8 × 29,7 cm (15 ⅝ × 11 ¾ in.). Monogrammed with white India ink in the image lower left. Laid down on original cardboard (41,7 x 30,8 cm). On reverse of the cardboard with address label of the photographer: "JOSEF BREITENBACH, PARIS VIe, 70 BIS, RUE N.-D. Of the CHAMPS, ODÉON 83-84“, thereupon titled with brown ink by Josef Breitenbach. Exhibition label of the "Société Francaise de Photographie et de Cinématographie“ of the "XXXe Salon International, d'art photographique, Paris 1935“ as well as estate stamp. Inscribed in pencil by an unknown hand. With light oxidation mottling.

Exh. Cat.: Josef Breitenbach. Photographien. Halle, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg; Munich, Fotomuseum im Stadtmuseum, 1996/97, p. 33, ill. 32 (there image caption: 'Jeune Fille en deuil' (Girl in mourning), Edith Schultze-Westrum in 'Die Ratten' by Gerhart Hauptmann, Munich 1932)

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