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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 15, 2007 | Sotheby's | New York | Photographs | 223 | $****** - ****** | All children are ambassadors |
photographs
14 x 8.9 cm (5.51 x 3.5 in)
gelatin silver print mounted
signed by the photographer in pencil, verso; dated by the photographer in pencil, verso; inscribed title, by the photographer in pencil, verso
Gift of the photographer to a friend and student, Chicago By descent to a private collection
Christie's New York, 13 October 2000, Sale 9484, Lot 401
Acquired by the present owners from the above
Other prints of this image: Leland Rice, Constance Glenn, and Jane K. Bledsoe, Frederick Sommer at Seventy-Five: A Retrospective (California State University, Long Beach, 1980, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 14 John Weiss, ed., Venus, Jupiter & Mars: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer (Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum, 1980, in conjunction with the exhibition), fig. 39 Van Deren Coke: Scholar as Collector (Albuquerque, 2001), p. 65 Catalog of the UCLA Collection of Contemporary Photographs (Frederick S. Wright Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1976), pl. 158 Bulletin, The University of New Mexico, University Art Museum, Number 5-6, 1971-72, cover Frederick Sommer, All Children Are Ambassadors (Munich, 1992), p. 30, variant cropping Keith F. Davis, The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage (Prescott and New Haven, 2005), p. 62, variant cropping
