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PROPERTY OF THE LARRY N. DEUTSCH COLLECTION, CHICAGO/TUCSON Ilse Bing The Dancer, Willem Gerard Van Loon Paris 1932 Gelatin silver print. 19 1/2 x 15 5/8 in. (49.5 x 39.7 cm). Signed and dated in ink on the recto; signed, titled and dated in pencil on the verso.
Provenance Houk Friedman Gallery, New York Literature Dryansky and Houk, Ilse Bing Photography Through the Looking Glass, p. 185 for a variant; High Museum of Art, Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, p. 132 Catalogue Essay From his earliest exposure to photography at the Art Chicago fair in 1981, Larry N. Deutsch has carefully selected, for well over two decades, vintage works by many of photography’s masters including the rare and unforgettable Distortion #6, Paris by André Kertész Irving Penn’s elegant and cunning Duchess of Windsor, New York, May 27, 1948 and Ilse Bing’s life affirming The Dancer, Willem Gerard Van Loon Paris, 1932. Each compelling image represents an intense love affair, the kind that educates one’s emotions for a lifetime. As a collector and art advisor Larry N. Deutsch met with, and learned from, such diverse photographers as Robert Mapplethorpe Ilse Bing Judith Golden William Wegman Sally Mann and Richard Avedon His passion for photography was further ignited by the art dealers who advised him, and by his correspondence with collectors from Chicago, New York and Europe. This print is unique in this format. It is one of the first large scale exhibition prints from a 35 mm negative. Read More