Front / Recto

  • Title Art Dealer (Kunsthändler)
  • Negative Date 1928
  • Print Date 1928–55
  • Medium Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions Image 8 5/8 x 5 7/16" (21.9 x 13.8 cm)
    Mount 13 5/16 × 10 5/16" (33.8 × 26.2 cm)
  • Place Taken Cologne
  • Credit Line Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Thomas Walther
  • MoMA Accession Number 1853.2001
  • Copyright © 2015 Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur - August Sander Archiv, Cologne / ARS, NY

Back / Verso

  • Mount Type Mount (original)
  • Marks and Inscriptions Signed in pencil on mount recto, bottom right: Sander [underlined]. Inscribed in pencil on mount recto, bottom right, with white text: Sigmund Salz/en 1928. Black label affixed to mount verso, top left, with white text: AUG. SANDER/KÖLN-LINDENTHAL/–Dürenerstr. 201.–. Inscribed in pencil on mount verso, bottom left: AS.0202.x.
  • Provenance The artist, Cologne; to the estate of F. Bonnier, Belgium [1]; to a private collection, New York [2]; consigned to Houk Friedman, New York, 1994 [3]; purchased by Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, January 3, 1996 [4]; purchased by Thomas Walther, October 8, 1996 [5]; given to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001.
    [1] MacGill/Walther 2001(4), p. 13.
    [2] Ibid.; and Jeffrey Fraenkel, e-mail to Simon Bieling, April 5, 2005.
    [3] MacGill/Walther 2001(4), p. 13; Fraenkel, e-mail to Bieling; and Matthew Ortiz (Edwynn Houk Gallery), e-mail to Maria Morris Hambourg, April 30, 2014.
    [4] MacGill/Walther 2001(4), p. 13; Amy Whiteside (Fraenkel Gallery), letter to Audrey Sands, October 25, 2013; and Fraenkel Gallery registration no. AS.0202.x inscribed on mount verso.
    [5] MacGill/Walther 2001(4), p. 13; Whiteside, letter to Sands; and Fraenkel Gallery invoice, 1996.

Surface

  • Surface Sheen Semireflective
  • Techniques Mount
    Retouching (additive)
    Retouching in negative
    Retouching (reductive)
  • PTM
    View of the recto of the artwork made using reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) software, which exaggerates subtle surface details and renders the features of the artwork plainly visible. Department of Conservation, MoMA
  • Micro-raking
    Raking-light close-up image, as shot. Area of detail is 6.7 x 6.7 mm. Department of Conservation, MoMA
    Raking-light close-up image, processed. Processing included removal of color, equalization of the histogram, and sharpening, all designed to enhance visual comparison. Department of Conservation, MoMA

Paper Material

  • Format Unknown
  • UV Fluorescence Recto negative
    Verso no data
  • Fiber Analysis No fiber data available
  • Material Techniques Developing-out paper
  • XRF

    This work was determined to be a gelatin silver print via X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry.

    The following elements have been positively identified in the work, through XRF readings taken from its recto and verso (or from the mount, where the verso was not accessible):

    • Recto: S, Cl, Ca, Zn, Rb, Sr, Ag, Ba, Pb
    • Mount: Al, Si, K, Ca, Fe, Zn, Pb

    The graphs below show XRF spectra for three areas on the print: two of the recto—from areas of maximum and minimum image density (Dmax and Dmin)—and one of the verso or mount. The background spectrum represents the contribution of the XRF instrument itself. The first graph shows elements identified through the presence of their characteristic peaks in the lower energy range (0 to 8 keV). The second graph shows elements identified through the presence of their characteristic peaks in the higher energy range (8 to 40 keV).

    Areas examined: Recto (Dmax: black; Dmin: green), Verso or Mount (blue), Background (red)
    Elements identified: Al, Si, S, Cl, K, Ca, Ag, Ba
    Areas examined: Recto (Dmax: black; Dmin: green), Verso or Mount (blue), Background (red)
    Elements identified: Fe, Zn, Rb, Sr, Ag, Pb

In Context

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August Sander. Industrial Magnate (Commercial Counsellor Arnold von Guilleaume) (Grosindustrieller) [Kommerzianrat Arnold von Guilleaume]). 1927. Gelatin silver print, 11 5/16 x 8 11/16" (28.8 x 22 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the photographer. © 2014 Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur – August Sander Archiv Köln/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
August Sander. Member of Parliament, Democrat (Abgeordneter der Deutschen Demokratischen ParteiI) 1927. Gelatin silver print, 11 5/8 x 8 3/4" (29.6 x 22.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the photographer. © 2014 Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur – August Sander Archiv Köln/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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