Herbert List (1903-1975) Boys Playing Football, Naples, 1959

Herbert List (1903-1975)
Boys Playing Football, Naples, 1959

Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1959, credit stamps on the verso.
image/ sheet: 8 3/4 x 11 1/2in. (22.2 x 29.2cm.)
Fine Art Neutral toned print on glossy ferrotyped, double-weight paper, trimmed to edges. Small handling crease at upper right edge, center; specks of retouching across surface, all visible in a raking light only. A beautiful print of List's dynamic classic, in very good condition. Sold framed.

Frame dimensions: 17 3/4 x 21 3/4in. (glass)
Provenance:
Christie's New York, March 23, 1996, lot 259

The pictures I took spontaneously - with a bliss-like sensation, as if they had long inhabited my unconscious - were often more powerful than those I had painstakingly composed. I grasped their magic as in passing.
HERBERT LIST