Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934)

Rodin, c. 1905

Details

Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934)
Rodin, c. 1905
platinum print on tissue
signed with copyright credit in pencil (recto)
image/sheet: 13 3/4 x 11 in. (35 x 28 cm.)

Provenance

The artist's niece;
Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York, 2011.

Literature

Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, The Art of Pictorial Photography, Vol. 51, No. 2, 1992, p. 94.
Barbara L. Michaels, Gertrude Käsebier: The Photographer and her Photographs, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1992, pl. 73 (variant).

Lot Essay

I had a letter of introduction to Rodin and found him to be very simple, very generous and very sincere. He had the greatest aura I had ever seen. It stood around him like a halo...
Gertrude Käsebier

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