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August Sander

Herdorf 1876 – 1964 Cologne

Frau eines Malers. [Helene Abelen] (wife of a painter). 1926/27

Gelatin silver print by Gunther Sander, 1970. Agfa paper. 23,6 × 16,3 cm (9 ¼ × 6 ⅜ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: August Sander. Frau eines Malers. [Helene Abelen] (wife of a painter). 1926/27.

Estimate:

EUR 4,000

 

- 6,000

USD 4,440

 

- 6,670

Sold for:

4,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2022

Photography, Wednesday, 01.06.2022

Information

Gelatin silver print by Gunther Sander, 1970. Agfa paper. 23,6 × 16,3 cm (9 ¼ × 6 ⅜ in.). Photographer's blindstamp: „AUG. SANDER KÖLN–LINDENTHAL“ in the lower left of the image. Photographer's stamp on the reverse: „AUGUST SANDER, LICHTBILDNER, KÖLN-LINDENTHAL, DÜRENERSTR. 201, TELEFON ANNO 2492". Mounted under mat (43,8 × 33,9 cm), stamp: „printed by Gunther Sander, 19..." on the reverse of the mat with date of the print: „70" in black ink.

Gunther Sander: August Sander. Menschen ohne Maske. Photographien 1906–1952. Luzern and Frankfurt am Main 1971, p. 227, pl. 189 (there titled and dated: Gattin des Kölner Malers Peter Abelen (Köln, 1926)) / Gunther Sander (ed.): August Sander. Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Portraitphotographien 1892–1952. München 1994, pl. 188 (there titled and dated: Frau eines Malers. Verheiratet mit Peter Abelen. Köln, ca. 1927/28) / exh. cat.: Zeitgenossen. August Sander und die Kunstszene der 20er Jahre im Rheinland. Köln, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle; Kiel, Kunsthalle, 2000, p. 83, ill. 89 (there titled and dated: Frau eines Malers [Helene Abelen], um 1926/27) / Weston Naef (ed.): In Focus. August Sander. Photographs from The J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles 2000, title und p. 49, pl. 21 (there dated: 1926) / Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln (ed.): August Sander. Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts. München 2002, Band III: Die Frau, p. 125 (there titled and dated: Frau eines Malers, um 1926) / exh. cat.: New Objectivity. Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic 1919-1933. Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, 2015, p. 50, 276 (there dated: 1926) / exh. cat.: Fotografie in der Weimarer Republik. Bonn, LVR-Landes­Museum, 2019/20, p. 60

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