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RAOUL UBAC (1910-1985 Belgian)
Lot 58

RAOUL UBAC (1910-1985 Belgian)

Le Combat de Penthésilée II, 1937

Closed19 November 2008

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GBP 6,875

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RAOUL UBAC (1910-1985 Belgian)
Le Combat de Penthésilée II, 1937
gelatin silver print
credited, titled, numbered '2' and annotated 'état définitif collage/cliché disponible/état non solarisé' by artist, 'cat.rais no.80' by Christian Bouqueret in ink/pencil on verso
6 5/8 x 9 1/8in. (16.8 x 23.1cm.)

From the artist;
by descent to his family;
acquired by present owner, Christian Bouqueret, 1999.
Bouqueret is a known Ubac scholar and author of the 2000 catalogue raisonné.

Specialist note

Ubac's series of complex photomontages were created in stages. Starting off with multiple shots of the same nude, Ubac would re-photograph and montage different fragments until he achieved a final grouping, repeating the process many times over. In this highly experimental process, Ubac would apply various photographic techniques, including solarisation. The resulting images would read as a 'kind of optical corrossion...a violent deliquescence of matter...' (Krauss, p.70)