Lot #128: PAUL OUTERBRIDGE - Consciousness - Original vintage photogravure

 

Artist: Paul Outerbridge (American, 1896 - 1958).
Title: "Consciousness".
Medium: Original vintage photogravure.
Date: Composed 1931. Printed 1931.
Dimensions: Image size: 11 1/4 x 8 15/16 in. (286 x 227 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $600
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $800/1,000
Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. Edition unknown, presumed small. High-grade archival paper. Printed to the edge of the sheet. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet, not mount/board.
Comment(s): Outerbridge was an avant-garde, fashion, and commercial photographer, an early pioneer and teacher of color photography, and a creator of erotic nude photographs that could not be exhibited in his lifetime. Image copyright © The Estate of Paul Outerbridge, Jr. [22879-2-600-NA]