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A rare period album which includes some of von Gloeden's most recognised images.
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Sicilian youths, Taormina, c.1901
Details
WILHELM VON GLOEDEN (1856-1931)
Sicilian youths, Taormina, c.1901
Album of 49 photographs, all but one albumen prints.
Varying sizes from 6 7/8 x 4¾in. (17.3 x 12cm.) to 8 7/8 x 6 5/8in. (22.5 x 16.7cm.). One signed, dated '1901' and annotated 'Taormina', another numbered '733-Z' in negative; a few with credit stamps (possibly more) on verso. Each mounted back-to-back, plus one on front cover. Monogrammed 'S' in ink on front cover. Brown paper.
Album size: 12½ x 9½in. (31.7 x 24.1cm.)
Sicilian youths, Taormina, c.1901
Album of 49 photographs, all but one albumen prints.
Varying sizes from 6 7/8 x 4¾in. (17.3 x 12cm.) to 8 7/8 x 6 5/8in. (22.5 x 16.7cm.). One signed, dated '1901' and annotated 'Taormina', another numbered '733-Z' in negative; a few with credit stamps (possibly more) on verso. Each mounted back-to-back, plus one on front cover. Monogrammed 'S' in ink on front cover. Brown paper.
Album size: 12½ x 9½in. (31.7 x 24.1cm.)
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Jünglinge in Arkadien: 49 Photographien von Wilhelm von Gloeden aus der Sammlung Christoph Niess, Klappholttal Sylt, Germany, July 1991; U. Pohlmann, Wilhelm von Gloeden - Sehnsucht nach Arkadien, Berlin, 1987, pp.141, 148-149, 151-152, 154.
Exhibited
Jünglinge in Arkadien: 49 Photographien von Wilhelm von Gloeden aus der Sammlung Christoph Niess, Klappholttal/Sylt, Germany, July 1991.
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