Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

120 c RUTH BERNHARD (1905-2006) Classic Torso. Silver print, the image measuring 13 1 / 2 x10 1 / 2 inches (34.3x26.7 cm.), the mount 19 1 / 2 x15 1 / 2 inches (49.5x39.4 cm.), with Bernhard’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto and her signature, title, and negative date, in pencil, on mount verso. 1952; printed 1980s [5,000/7,500] Acquired Sotheby’s, October 20, 1981, lot 20; to a Private New York Collector. Bernhard, The Eternal Body (Chronicle Books), pl. 12. Mitchell, Ruth Bernhard: Between Art and Life (Chronicle Books), p. 64. 121 c RUTH BERNHARD (1905-2006) Angles. Selenium-toned silver print, the imagemeasuring 7 5 / 8 x9 3 / 4 inches (19.4x24.8 cm.), the mount 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Bernhard’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and with her title and negative date, in pencil, and her copyright hand stamp, on mount verso. 1969; printed 1985 [3,000/4,500] 120 121