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WOLS (ALFRED OTTO WOLFGANG SCHULZE), 1913-1951 Pho

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WOLS (ALFRED OTTO WOLFGANG SCHULZE), 1913-1951
Photograms, 1938

Five gelatin silver prints. Each approximately 9 ³/₈ x 6 ⁷/₈ in. (23.8 x 17.5 cm). Four dated in pencil on the mount.

PROVENANCE Estate of Grety Wols
EXHIBITED Wols: Vintage Photographs from the 1930s, Ubu Gallery, New York, 22 February - 21 April 2001; Kamera los, Museum der Modern, Salzburg, 2007
LITERATURE Corbeau & Renard, La trajectoire du regard, pp. 83-87

In 1932, before leaving for Paris, Wols was in touch with László Moholy-Nagy at the Bauhaus. In the 1930s, Wols experimented with non-camera based images known as photograms. To date, only six of his photograms are known to exist: this group of five and a sixth which remain in a private European collection.

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