Gustavo Bonaventura (Verona 1882–1966 Rome)
Portrait of the photographer Hugo Erfurth in his Atelier, Palais Lüttichau,
Dresden
1911
vintage gelatin silver photograph
23,3 × 8,7 cm ((9 ⅛ × 3 ⅜ in.)
collection stamp on
the reverse as well as inscribed and numbered by various hands in blue
ballpoint pen and pencil
The Daulton Collection
Condition: In
very good condition. Mattes paper. Tear edge on the left. In raking light
isolated hardly perceptible oxidation mirroring.
References:
Hugo Erfurth
1874-1948. Photograph zwischen Tradition und Moderne (Cologne, Museum für
Angewandte Kunst; Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen; Munich, Stadtmuseum,
1992/93), p. 417 (there a further picture from the same session)
Italie 1880-1910. Arte alla prova della modernità (Rom, Galleria Nazionale
d'Arte Moderna, 2000/01; Paris, Musée d'Orsay, 2001), p. 265, pl. 102 (there a
further picture from the same session)
Portrait im Aufbruch.
[Portraits of an Age.] Photographie in Deutschland und Österreich 1900 - 1938.
New York, Neue Galerie. Museum for German and Austrian Art, 2005, p. 142 (there
attributed to Hugo Erfurth, titled and dated: "Self portrait, Dresden, after
1906")
