Name: KARL STRUSS (1886-1981)
Brand: Sorrento, 1909
Price: 22000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

KARL STRUSS (1886-1981)
Sorrento, 1909
platinum print, mounted to tissue
signed and dated in pencil (recto); signed and dated in pencil (primary mount, recto); annotated in pencil, titled in ink with stamped photographer's credit and 'The Emporium / San Francisco / Second Annual / Photographic Exhibition / September 1922 / Accepted' stamp, with affixed Toronto Camera Club exhibition label (secondary mount, verso)
image/sheet: 12⁷⁄₈ x 10 in. (32.7 x 25.4 cm.)
primary mount: 16¹⁄₂ x 12³⁄₈ in. (41.9 x 31.4 cm.)
secondary mount: 18¹⁄₂ x 15 in. (47 x 38.1 cm.)

Christie's, New York, October 3, 1996, lot 75;
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the late owner, c. 2000.

Alfred Stieglitz, Camera Work, No. 38, April 1912.

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Lot Essay

An accomplished film director himself, the scene of this lush, large-format platinum print by Karl Struss appears more fantastical than real. This image was originally featured in issue No. 38 of Camera Work, Alfred Stieglitz’s groundbreaking photography journal, in April 1912.

This very print was included in several early 20th century photography exhibitions, as evidenced by the labels on the verso. Since this work last appeared at auction in 1996, no other platinum prints of the image had appeared at auction.