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Oil print, the photographer's monogram on the image, mounted on original exhibition paper mount, title in pencil on the mount; signed, titled in English and French, a red stamp 'DB 69' and annotated 'D027/M' in pencil on mount verso, framed.
9 3/4 x 7 3/4in
Footnotes
Provenance:
Private Collection, San Diego, California; Joel Soroka Gallery, Aspen, Co.; private collection
Exhibited:
London, Royal Photographic Society, Pierre Dubreuil Retrospective, 1935
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Pierre Dubreuil, Photographs 1896-1935, 1987
San Diego, The Museum of Photographic Arts; Pierre Dubreuil Rediscovered, 1988; and thereafter to Alliance Française, New York, 1989; and Detroit Institute of Arts, 1989-90
Literature:
Royal Photographic Society, London 1935(retrospective)
Tom Jacobson, Pierre Dubreuil, Photographs 1896-1935, (San Diego, 1987, in conjunction with the exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, p. 94, no. 75 (this print)
Pierre Dubreuil (1872-1944) created some of the most profound photographic images of the early part of the twentieth century. He was very interested in the new photographic processes of the time, and experimented with carbon, gum-bichromate, platinum, and bromide prints. In 1904, Dubreuil began to work with the Rowlins oil process, which allowed for more control and had the benefit of being permanent. From that point forward, he devoted much of his creative efforts to using this process. The nature of the process also resulted in unique, one-of-a-kind impressions, much like a monoprint in printmaking. Dubreuil’s negatives and archives were bombed and destroyed during World War II, resulting in very few of his prints having made their way to the market place. Les Vieilles Amies has never previously been offered at auction, and the following lot, Vegetables, only once before, since their initial presentation at Dubreuil's retrospective exhibition at the Royal Photographic Society in 1935.