11 New England Landscape 1938
Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled, signed and dated in
ink in lower margin, 30.7 x 29.9cm. Small indentations to image
upper right, slight foxing to lower margin, minor wear to corners
of margins.
Taken
on a camping field trip with Cotton's geologist father. (Ref:
Sally McInerney)
$6,600
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12 Nocturne 1938
Vintage silver gelatine photograph, signed in pencil on image
lower right, titled, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin,
signed and titled with cancelled title "Soaring" in
ink by Cotton, and numeric
annotations in ink and crayon in an unknown hand verso, 24.1
x 21.9cm. Minor scuffs and indentations overall, slight retouching
to image upper right, small stains to lower edge of image and
to upper margin. Laid down on original backing.
$7,700
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13 [Windflower Montage
With Shadow Pattern]
1939
Vintage silver gelatin photograph, 37.6 x 30.2cm. Minor indentation
to image upper centre, slight foxing to image lower right and
margins, stain to lower left corner of margin.
An
early experimental version of Windflowers, also made using two
negatives to produce the image. The more commonly known variant
of Windflowers is illustrated in Ennis' two books: Olive Cotton,
Photographer, NLA, 1995, p63, and Olive Cotton, AGNSW, 2000,
p51.
$14,500
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14 Light Over The
Mountain
1940
Vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed and dated in pencil
in lower margin, titled and dated in ink verso, 29.4 x 32cm.
Minor retouching to image overall, slight scuffs to lower right
of image, paper remnants verso.
$5,500
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15 [Ploughed Field
With Shadows]
1940
Vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed and dated in pencil
in lower margin, 29.6 x 29.5cm. Minor rubbing to image upper
and left centre, slight paper loss to edges of image. Laid down
on original backing.
$6,600
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16 [Montage With
Curves]
c1940
Vintage silver gelatin photograph, 13.7 x 13.6cm. Slight crazing
and scuffing to image, vertical crease with cracking to periphery
of image.
This
photograph appears to be a working print, showing the influence
of Modernism. The crease to the edge of the image was probably
a part of the working process during printing, used to determine
the vertical orientation of the image. An imprint of an implement,
possibly a fork, also appears in the emulsion in the lower margin.
$5,500
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