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Auction archive: Lot number 21

KARL BLOSSFELDT

Photobooks
19 May 2009
Estimate
£1,800 - £2,500
ca. US$2,778 - US$3,859
Price realised:
£3,250
ca. US$5,017
Auction archive: Lot number 21

KARL BLOSSFELDT

Photobooks
19 May 2009
Estimate
£1,800 - £2,500
ca. US$2,778 - US$3,859
Price realised:
£3,250
ca. US$5,017
Beschreibung:

KARL BLOSSFELDT
KARL BLOSSFELDT Wundergarten der Natur -- The Magic Garden of Nature . Berlin: Verlag Für Kunstwissenschaft, 1932. Folio, and quarto booklet of captions (315 x 249mm). 120 black and white photographs. Original grey linen portfolio, front cover blocked in red. FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY OF THE PORTFOLIO ISSUE. The second of Blossfeldt's three 'immensely popular, regularly reprinted "pictorial documents"... In 1929, a selection of the work was exhibited at the Bauhaus... but even before that Blossfeldt had become an unwitting avatar of the New Objectivity'. ( 101 Books ). Variants of the binding are know, this one is in grey linen with the illustration blocked in red. 101 Books , pp.48-9; The Open Book , pp.106-107.

Auction archive: Lot number 21
Auction:
Datum:
19 May 2009
Auction house:
Christie's
19 May 2009, London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

KARL BLOSSFELDT
KARL BLOSSFELDT Wundergarten der Natur -- The Magic Garden of Nature . Berlin: Verlag Für Kunstwissenschaft, 1932. Folio, and quarto booklet of captions (315 x 249mm). 120 black and white photographs. Original grey linen portfolio, front cover blocked in red. FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY OF THE PORTFOLIO ISSUE. The second of Blossfeldt's three 'immensely popular, regularly reprinted "pictorial documents"... In 1929, a selection of the work was exhibited at the Bauhaus... but even before that Blossfeldt had become an unwitting avatar of the New Objectivity'. ( 101 Books ). Variants of the binding are know, this one is in grey linen with the illustration blocked in red. 101 Books , pp.48-9; The Open Book , pp.106-107.

Auction archive: Lot number 21
Auction:
Datum:
19 May 2009
Auction house:
Christie's
19 May 2009, London, South Kensington
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