Rudy Burckhardt Basle 1914 – 1999 Searsmont Portfolio „Photos“.

Portfolio „Photos“. 1945/1954

5 Gelatin silver prints, 1981. Each approx. 23 × 27,5 cm (28 × 35,3 cm). (9 × 10 ⅞ in. (11 × 13 ⅞ in.)) Each signed in the lower right margin with black felt-tip pen, in the lower left dated and titled, as well as editioned in the centre. Each wrapped in paper. With accompanying printed title page in English with text by Ron Padgett: „On Rudy Burckhardt“ as well as an edition note on the last page, signed with black felt-tip pen and edition number. Together in blue original linen portfolio (37 x 29 x 1,7 cm) with title imprint in gold: „Rudy Burckhardt 'PHOTOS'“. One of 30 + 7 a.p. editioned copies, ed. Matrix Publications Inc., Providence 1981. [2023]
Provenance: Private Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia
Literature and Illustration: Philip Lopate and Vincent Katz: Rudy Burckhardt, New York 2004, title (dust jacket), p. 16, 19, 20, 22 and pl. 109, 119, 135, 137, 175