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Lot 47 Dα

Fernand Khnopff - Masque de jeune Anglaise

Auction 1031 - overview Cologne
30.05.2014, 14:30 - Photography
Estimate: 2.500 €
Result: 2.440 € (incl. premium)

Fernand Khnopff

Masque de jeune Anglaise
1891

Toned platinum print, in parts hand coloured in pastel. 25.8 x 16.5 cm. Flush-mounted to thin card and original cardboard. Signed in pencil on the card lower right and blind stamp 'Alexandre Photo' on the cardboard lower left. - Card and cardboard with foxing. Print in a good condition. Framed under glass.

In cooperation with the photographer Alexandre from Brussels, photographic reproductions of some of Fernand Khnopff's works were produced and were subsequently retouched by the artist with chalk or pastels and revised and signed respectively. By doing so, Khnopff thought over his work a second time using mechanical reproduction techniques and thus created a new unicum. (cf. Dorothy Kosinski, The Gaze of Fernand Khnopff, in: Dorothy Kosinski (ed.) The artist and the camera. Degas to Picasso, New Haven i.a. 1999, pp.143 ff)

Literature

Fernand Khnopff, exhib.cat. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Munich 1980, plate 56