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PAUL STRAND (American, 1890-1976) MULLEIN, MAINE signed and inscribed "Paul Strand, Maine 1927" by t
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Estimated At:250,000.00 - 350,000.00 USD
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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2002 Apr 15 @ 16:00UTC-08:00 : PST/AKDT
PAUL STRAND (American, 1890-1976) MULLEIN, MAINE signed and inscribed "Paul Strand, Maine 1927" by the artist on verso "Blue Black Platinum, Platinotype, fine print" inscribed by the artist on verso vintage platinum print 915/16 x 77/8 in. (25.3 x 20 cm) 1927 ESTIMATE: $250,000-350,000 PROVENANCE Michael E. Hoffman, NEW YORK (until 1986) Peter Daub, NEW YORK (until 1989) Galerie Zur Stockeregg, ZURICH Private Collection, NEW YORK LITERATURE Kaspar Fleischmann, PAUL STRAND, Zurich, 1987, pp. 56-57, pl. 24 (illustrated) Sarah Greenough, PAUL STRAND: AN AMERICAN VISION, Washington, D.C., 1990, p. 107 (illustrated) Paul Strand earned his living in the 1920s working as a cameraman for newsreels, commercial films and even action sequences for Hollywood movies. The hectic schedule only allowed him to photograph on the weekends or whenever he could get away. In the summer of 1927, the Strands stayed at Georgetown Island in Maine where they visited their friends Gaston and Isabel Lachaise. Paul set about making close-up photographs, a quiet, solitary activity that requires great patience. He focused on mushrooms, rocks, and plants, such as mullein, a common road-side growth. Mullein is considered a weed, but posesses sedative powers that have been used for centuries by Native Americans. In order to properly render the wooly texture of the mullein leaves he needed, "a range of almost infinite tonal values which lie beyond the skill of human hand" (Paul Strand, "Photography," Seven Arts, August 1917, pp. 524-26). Strand achieved this by making a large 8x10 inch negative that he contact printed on platinum paper. He was such an accomplished printer that he convinced the Platinotype Company to double-coat their platinum paper after he demonstrated to them the improved quality he was capable of producing with that method. Written on the back of this rich, velvety print, in addition to Strand's signature, title and date, is the following inscription in his own hand: "Blue black Platinum/ Platinotype/ fine print." From a craftsman as exacting as Strand, known to tear up piles of prints that didn't meet his standards, this note bequeaths this lot a special value. This print remained with his estate until ten years after his death.
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