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ATTRIBUTED TO JOHANN GRAF
Lot 38

ATTRIBUTED TO JOHANN GRAF

Soap foam, before 1933

Closed15 May 2008

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GBP 8,125

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ATTRIBUTED TO JOHANN GRAF
Soap foam, before 1933
gelatin silver print
credited, titled and numbered '17' in unknown hand in pencil on verso
9 x 6½in. (22.7 x 16.5cm.)

As lot 27.

Specialist note

The photographer has observed and captured within a banal and fugitive subject -- the foam of soap -- an abstracted graphic structure, elegantly and delicately delineated in fine pale lines on a black ground.