AUGUST SANDER (1876–1964)
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM KELLY SIMPSON
AUGUST SANDER (1876–1964)

Bricklayer, 1928

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AUGUST SANDER (1876–1964)
Bricklayer, 1928
gelatin silver print, printed by Gunther Sander (the artist's son) late 1950s–mid-1970s
blindstamped 'Aug. Sander Köln–Lindenthal' credit (recto); numbered '#540' and '#59' in unknown hands in pencil (verso); stamped 'The Graham Nash Collection', numbered '#540' and '455' in pencil and titled 'Mason's Apprentice', dated '1929', numbered '8' and annotated 'Modern print' on affixed typed label (mat, verso)
image/sheet: 9 3/8 x 12 in. (23.8 x 30.4 cm.)
Provenance
Photographs from the Collection of Graham Nash, Sotheby's, New York, April 25, 1990, lot 180;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Alfred Döblin, Antlitz Der Zeit, Schirmer/Mosel, München, 1976, cover, p. 23.
August Sander: Photographs of an Epoch, Aperture, New York, 1980, p. 12.
Gunther Sander (ed.), August Sander: Citizens of the Twentieth Century, The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1989, p. 120.
Christoph Schreier, August Sander, August Sander Archive, Cologne, 1997, p. 71.
Susanne Lange, August Sander 1876-1964, Taschen, Cologne, 1999, cover, p. 57.
August Sander, People of the 20th Century, Vol. II, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2002, cover and pl. II/10/3, p. 87.
Exhibition catalogue, Seeing, Observing and Thinking, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, 2009, pl. 46.

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