Ruth Bernhard

Two Leaves
Vintage Print

Gelatin silver photograph, very early print, image 9 1/2 x 7 1/8 dry-mounted to the original period crescent board. Signed in pencil on the front of the mount; signed titled and with the artist's copyright stamp on verso. (The zip code in the artist's address indicates this print is prior to 1964.) Only a few extant vintage prints of this image, to the best of our knowledge. Provenance: From the estate of Wynn Bullock to John Stevenson to the current owner in 2004.

Condition and regarding a hairline scratch in the negative: From a letter from John Stevenson Gallery dated November 1, 2004. "On the Ruth Bernhard Two Leaves: I sent it to one of the leading conservators, Nancy Wu, for examination. The print is indeed in excellent condition; the hairline scratch in the lower left corner is not in the print, but the original negative."

Vintage print, 1952, 9 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches

Greg Gorman (2 prints)

Gum-over-platinum 2 print set:
Rex and Gregory | Tony

There is no photographic process more demanding or exacting as gum-over-platinum, a favorite process of Edward Steichen, Henrich Khuen and select few others. The result of the process is a textural and unique, almost tactile surface, rendering a soft and sometimes painterly aesthetic. It is considered the very highest standard of the hand-crafted photographic print and is extremely rare.

20 x 25 inches on 26 x 32 Arches Platine, signed on the recto, edition: 18 with 2 AP's

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