Details
FREDERICK SOMMER (1905–1999)
Lee Nevin, 1965
gelatin silver print
signed, titled and dated in pencil (verso)
image: 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (33.6 x 26 cm.)
sheet: 14 x 11 in. (35.5 x 27.9 cm.)
Provenance
Gifted by the artist to his friend, the poet Jonathan Williams;
acquired from the above by a private collector;
Sotheby's, New York, October 7, 2015, lot 87;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Venus, Jupiter & Mars, the Photographs of Frederick Sommer, Delaware Art Museum, Delaware, 1980, pl. 81.
Exhibition Catalogue, The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2005, p. 139.
Exhibited
Carmel-By-The-Sea, Center for Photographic Art, The Elegant Kinship of Constellations: Photographs, Collages, and Drawings, September -October 1995.
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