Vintage Female Nudes (1880 - 1930)
Aurora Studios
"Reclining Nude with Flowers" 1913
Sepia toned silver gelatin print. 19 x 23.5 cm.
Negative inscribed: "1913 The Aurora Studios. No. 021"
Price: EUR 350,- USD 465,- NOK 3000,-
Julian Mandel (1872 - 1935)
"Nude" c. 1925
Toned gelatin silver print. 17 x 22.5 cm.
Price: EUR 465,- USD 620,- NOK 4000,-
Early 20th Century photographer Julian Mandel is famous for the exceptional female nudes that he published through the Paris-based studios of A. Noyer and PC Paris. His photographs are artfully composed and the tones are exquisite. Each sepia-tone image is printed on heavy matte-finish stock. In the negative is printed the photographer's name, as well as the studio's initials and edition number.
"Hungarien" c. 1900
Photographer Unknown
Photogravure 12 x 16 cm.
Price: EUR 150,- USD 200,- NOK 1300,-
Titled in pencil recto in an unknown hand. From a group of gravures comprised of poses of nude women from around the world.
Gaudenzio Marconi (1841-1885)
"Nudes and angels" 1880
Albumen print. 27x19,5 cm.
Price: EUR 1075,- USD 1445,- NOK 9300,-
Gaudenzio Marconi was born in Italy, 1841. Alhough there is little information on his early life. In 1869, after moving to Paris, Gaudenzio began photographing nude academic subjects for artists and sculptors of the period, most notably for Auguste Rodin. Rodin's sculptures, both the human modeling figures and the finished sculptures, known as the "Age of Bronze" are based on photographs produced by Marconi. Marconi became particularly preoccupied with the art of photography. After the death of Auguste Belloc, (the early erotic creator of daguerreotype and the wet-plate collodion process), Marconi took over Belloc's studio and negatives. From there, Marconi is known to have been the first creator of large photographic prints, although their existence is very rare today.
During his life, Marconi was not known as a photography pioneer but considered by his peers to be a "photographer of the academy of arts". His classical use of pronounced attitude, gesturing of body positions, lighting and the adding of "painting elements" such as cherubs became characteristic of his work. In the early postcard era, Marconi's nude images began to appear anonymously. Much later, as people began to note photography as an art, Marconi became known. Unfortunately, Marconi did not live to see this happen as he died in Paris, 1885, at the young age of forty-four.
Frantisek Drtikol (1883-1961)
"Nude" c. 1928
Toned silver gelatin print. 28.5 x 23 cm.(Posthumous print.)
Photographer`s blindstamp in print.
Price: EUR: 1650,- USD 2200,- NOK 14200,-
Frantisek Dritkol became one of the most important Czech photographers of the twentieth Century. His work, mainly portraits and nude photographs, reflect the late 19th Century decorative style as well as the signs of a new age symbolized by geometric backgrounds and the movement of the age.
Dritkol's craving for truth led him to eastern philosophies, into areas so remote as the world of Cabbala and Buddhism where he sought for and found an artistic language of his own.
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