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Lot 170
Sale 5856 - Photographs & Photobooks
Sep 11, 2019
9:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Lot Description
ARNOLD NEWMAN (AMERICAN, 1918–2006) PORTRAIT OF GEORGES ROUALT
1957, printed ca. 1960s–70s. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on recto of board, and stamped on verso. Gelatin silver print mounted to board.
Image: 19 1/2 x 15 5/8 in. (49.5 x 39.7cm).
Board: 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8cm).
Arnold Newman is known for his "environmental" portraits in which he depicted his subject in their natural habitat, surrounded by their favorite objects—capturing their interior state as well as their appearance, an unconventional idea in the 1930s.