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Ringl + pit (Ellen Auerbach & Grete Stern)

Karlsruhe 1906 - 2004 New York & Elberfeld 1904 - 1999 Buenos Aires

”Comol” [sic!]. 1931

Gelatin silver print, 1984. 34,3 × 23,2 cm (35,1 × 24 cm) (13 ½ × 9 ⅛ in. (13 ⅞ × 9 ½ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Ringl + pit (Ellen Auerbach & Grete Stern). ”Comol” [sic!]. 1931.

Estimate:

EUR 2,000

 

- 2,500

USD 2,330

 

- 2,910

Sold for:

8,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn 2021

The Art of Photography, Wednesday, 01.12.2021

Information

Gelatin silver print, 1984. 34,3 × 23,2 cm (35,1 × 24 cm) (13 ½ × 9 ⅛ in. (13 ⅞ × 9 ½ in.)). Signed by Ellen Auerbach and Grete Stern in pencil on the reverse as well as dated and titled by Ellen Auerbach. Photographer's and studio stamp: „FOTOGRAFIE RINGL + PIT“, therein archive-no. and date of the print in pencil.

Campo Grafico. Rivista di estetica e di tecnica grafica. Milano. Vol. 5, n° 3 (March 1937), p. 10 / Exh. cat.: Fotografie am Bauhaus. Berlin, Bauhaus- Archiv; Tübingen, Kunsthalle; Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe; Zurich, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst; Paris, Mission du Patrimoine Photographique palace de Tokyo, 1990/91, p. 227, ill. 382 (there dated: 1932) / Inka Graeve Ingelmann: Ellen Auerbach. Das dritte Auge. Leben und Werk. Munich 2006, pl. 10 (there dated: 1932/33) / Exh. cat.: Grete Stern. Berlin - Buenos Aires. Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et Archéologie, 2008/09, p. 53 (there titled and dated: Komol, Haarfärbemittel, 1932) / Exh. cat.: From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola. New York, MoMA; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, 2015/16, p. 51, pl. 29

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