Sale 2474 - The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks, Apri 19, 2018

331    FREDERICK SOMMER (1905-1999) Portfolio entitled The Birth Of Venus. Complete with 5 rich dust-grain photogravures made from the original negatives, the images measuring 9x10 to 9 1 / 2 x11 inches (22.9x25.4 to 24.1x27.9 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 13 1 / 2 x15 1 / 8 inches (34.3x38.4 cm.), each with Sommer’s signature and edition notation 45/95, in pencil, on mount verso. Folio-sized printed folding wrappers; with the colophon; contents loose as issued. New York, New York: Kevin Begos Publishing, 1991-93 [2,000/3,000] Embryology * The Birth of Venus * The Play’s the Thing * Maelstrom * Portrait.