5th Jun, 2024 18:00

OSTLICHT PHOTO AUCTION SPRING 2024

 
  Lot 51
 

ROMAN VISHNIAC (1897–1990)
Albert Einstein in Princeton, 1942

Estimate
€3,000 - €4,000
 

Buyer's premium: 20%

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Lot details

Start price: €1.800

Estimate: € 3.000–4.000

English:

Large format platinum print on fine art cotton paper 60,2 x 50,4 cm, printed in the 1980s, in excellent condition. Blindstamp "MA-P" with sun symbol in the lower margin. PROVENANCE Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.

Shortly after his arrival in the United States, Vishniac began a project to portray a number of prominent Russian and German-Jewish emigrants. At the end of 1941, he contacted Albert Einstein, who eventually received him in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study. Vishniac photographed the Nobel Prize winner smoking a pipe while working at his desk and at a blackboard. The resulting portraits were among Einstein's favourite pictures.

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Deutsch:

Großformatiger Platinum-Print auf Fine-Art-Baumwollpapier 60,2 x 50,4 cm, geprintet in den 1980er Jahren, in ausgezeichnetem Zustand. Im unteren Rand Blindstempel "MA-P" mit Sonnensymbol. PROVENIENZ Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.

Kurz nach seiner Ankunft in den Vereinigten Staaten begann Vishniac mit dem Projekt, eine Reihe von prominenten russischen und deutsch-jüdischen Emigranten zu porträtieren. Ende 1941 nahm er dafür Kontakt mit Albert Einstein auf, der ihn schließlich in seinem Büro am Institute for Advanced Study empfing. Vishniac fotografierte den Nobelpreisträger Pfeife-rauchend, während der Arbeit an seinem Schreibtisch und an einer Tafel. Die dabei entstandenen Porträts zählten zu Einsteins Lieblingsbildern.

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Size: 49,7 x 40,5 cm

 

Auction: OSTLICHT PHOTO AUCTION SPRING 2024, 5th Jun, 2024

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