Charles Negre 1820-1880
Hand Study (Negative)
Waxed Paper Negative
28 x 21 cms
11 1/16 x 8 4/16 ins
11 1/16 x 8 4/16 ins
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Charles Nègre's greatest paper negative. This unprecedented image is one of the most extraordinary early French photographs. Comparison with Nègre's self portraits, characterised by his exceptionally long fingers and a...
Charles Nègre's greatest paper negative.
This unprecedented image is one of the most extraordinary early French photographs. Comparison with Nègre's self portraits, characterised by his exceptionally long fingers and a ring - strangely worn on his index finger - allows one to conclude that this is a conceptual "self portrait".
Sudre.
This unprecedented image is one of the most extraordinary early French photographs. Comparison with Nègre's self portraits, characterised by his exceptionally long fingers and a ring - strangely worn on his index finger - allows one to conclude that this is a conceptual "self portrait".
Sudre.
Provenance
Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes, ParisHenry Bulh, United States
Exhibitions
New York, Guggenheim Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, June - September 2004.West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Show of Hands: Photographs and Sculpture from the Buhl Collection, January - March 2008.
Seoul, South Korea, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Asian tour), March - May 2009.
Literature
Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 28 and 237 (this negative)A modern positive print made from this negative:
Françoise Heilbrun, Charles Negre (Berlin, 1988), p. 49