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Lot 171
Sale 5856 - Photographs & Photobooks
Sep 11, 2019
9:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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ARNOLD NEWMAN (AMERICAN, 1918–2006) PORTRAIT OF MAX ERNST
1946, printed later. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on recto, with photographer's stamp on verso. Gelatin silver print, mounted to board.
Image: 19 1/2 x 15 in. (49.5 x 38.4cm)
Board: 24 x 19 7/8 in. (61 x 50.1cm)
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.