26th May, 2022 11:00
Fine Antiques & Works of Art
ALFRED STIEGLITZ (Editor), Camera Work
two original volumes of the magazine, numbers 22 (1908) and 34/5 (1911).
No. 22 has the three half-tones missing but contains all the text and advertisements, that is, the un-numbered publication details page, article on colour photography (pp 13-24) by Steichen, article on Stieglitz's expulsion from the Camera Club of New York (pp. 25-32), New Tendancies in Art by J Nilsen Laurvik (pp.33-34), The Rodin Drawings at the Photo-Secession Galleries pp. 35-41, Rumpus in a Hen-House, Charles H Caffin pp. 42-43, The Photo-Secession Galleries and The Camera Workers (organization set up after Stieglitz expulsion from The Camera Club), 15 pages of advetisements, covers with edge losses and tears (see online images).
No. 34/5, the photogravures are missing but retaining seven collotypes of Rodin watercolours, contents include all the text and advertisements, that is, the un-numbered publication details page, Rodin and the Eternality of the Pagan Soul, Benjamin de Casseres, pp. 13-14, Some Recollections of Rodin, Agnes Ernst Meyer, pp. 15-19,Rodin's Balzac, by S. H. pp.19-21, from 'The Sanity of Art' George Bernard Shaw, p.22, The New Art in Paris, Marius de Zayas, pp. 29-34, four plates from Rodin exhibition, each separated by blank page, A Note on Paul Cezanne, Charles H Caffin, pp.47-51, three furthe Rodin plates, Arthur Symonds on Rodin's Drawings, pp.63-64, Pablo Picasso, Marius de Zayas, pp.65-67, 14 pages of advertisements, pages loose in both copies.
Sold for £125
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two original volumes of the magazine, numbers 22 (1908) and 34/5 (1911).
No. 22 has the three half-tones missing but contains all the text and advertisements, that is, the un-numbered publication details page, article on colour photography (pp 13-24) by Steichen, article on Stieglitz's expulsion from the Camera Club of New York (pp. 25-32), New Tendancies in Art by J Nilsen Laurvik (pp.33-34), The Rodin Drawings at the Photo-Secession Galleries pp. 35-41, Rumpus in a Hen-House, Charles H Caffin pp. 42-43, The Photo-Secession Galleries and The Camera Workers (organization set up after Stieglitz expulsion from The Camera Club), 15 pages of advetisements, covers with edge losses and tears (see online images).
No. 34/5, the photogravures are missing but retaining seven collotypes of Rodin watercolours, contents include all the text and advertisements, that is, the un-numbered publication details page, Rodin and the Eternality of the Pagan Soul, Benjamin de Casseres, pp. 13-14, Some Recollections of Rodin, Agnes Ernst Meyer, pp. 15-19,Rodin's Balzac, by S. H. pp.19-21, from 'The Sanity of Art' George Bernard Shaw, p.22, The New Art in Paris, Marius de Zayas, pp. 29-34, four plates from Rodin exhibition, each separated by blank page, A Note on Paul Cezanne, Charles H Caffin, pp.47-51, three furthe Rodin plates, Arthur Symonds on Rodin's Drawings, pp.63-64, Pablo Picasso, Marius de Zayas, pp.65-67, 14 pages of advertisements, pages loose in both copies.
Auction: Fine Antiques & Works of Art, 26th May, 2022
