Germaine Krull - Citroen (Dans la fonderie) - image-1

Lot 67 D

Germaine Krull - Citroen (Dans la fonderie)

Auction 1058 - overview Cologne
27.11.2015, 14:30 - Photography
Estimate: 1.600 € - 1.800 €

Germaine Krull

Citroen (Dans la fonderie)
c. 1927

Vintage gelatin silver print. 15.8 x 20.5 cm. Photographer's stamp and titled in pencil on the verso. - Matted.

This motif is currently on show in the retrospective exhibition in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin and is included in the accompanying exhibition catalogue in the chapter entitled "Ein origineller Kopf" (an original mind). The image is an unmistakeable example of Germaine Krull's talent for taking unremarkable everyday scenes and situations, such as this motif of the Citroen factory foundry, and embuing them with a mysterious, poetic mood.

Provenance

Private collection, Paris

Literature

Michel Frizot, Germaine Krull, exhib.cat. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Ostfildern 2015, ill. p. 236