Untitled (Beach equipment), 1936

Details

PAUL OUTERBRIDGE JR. (1896–1958)
Untitled (Beach equipment), 1936
carbro print
stamped and numbered '800' in pencil in photographer's Estate credit (verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery label (mat, verso)
image: 15 x 11 7/8 in. (38 x 30.1 cm.)
sheet: 16 1/2 x 14 in. (41.8 x 35.5 cm.)

Provenance

Julie Saul Gallery, New York;
Courtesy of Ms. Cathy Kaplan, New York.

Literature

Paul Outerbridge, Paul Outerbridge: A Singular Aesthetic, Arabesque, Santa Barbara, 1981, p. 186.
Elaine Dines-Cox, Paul Outerbridge 1896-1958, Taschen, Cologne, 1999, n.p.
Paul Martineau, Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2009, n.p.

Brought to you by

Shlomi Rabi

srabi@christies.com +1 212 636 2447

Lot Essay

"During the thirties and forties Paul Outerbridge was a famous and successful commercial photographer, noted especially for the high quality of his color illustrations, which were done in those years by means of an extremely complex and recalcitrant process called the carbro print. In all the arts, work that is praised when new because of its difficulty is often forgotten once the technical problem has been simplified. Such is the case with most color photography of a quarter century ago, including that of Outerbridge." —John Szarkowski

More from Photographs

View All