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Auction archive: Lot number 8

Pierre-Émile-Joseph Pécarrère

Photographs
1 Nov 2018
Estimate
£20,000 - £30,000
ca. US$26,022 - US$39,033
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 8

Pierre-Émile-Joseph Pécarrère

Photographs
1 Nov 2018
Estimate
£20,000 - £30,000
ca. US$26,022 - US$39,033
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

ULTIMATE Early French Masterworks from the Hyman Collection Pierre-Émile-Joseph Pécarrère Follow Femme en Prière [Woman in Prayer] likely 1851-1853 Salt print from a waxed paper negative, mounted later. Image/sheet: 23.7 x 15.4 cm (9 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.) Mount: 45 x 33 cm (17 3/4 x 12 7/8 in.) This work is the only known print of this image to date and is likely unique.
Condition Report Sign up or Log in Provenance Collection of Yvan Christ, Paris Collection of Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes, Paris, 1970s Sotheby's, Paris, La Photographie IV: Collection Marie-Thérèse et André Jammes , 15 November 2008, lot 33 Serge Plantureux, Paris, 2010 The Hyman Collection, London Exhibited Primitifs de la photographie: le calotype en France 1843-1860 , Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 19 October 2010 - 16 January 2011, this lot Literature A. Jammes & E. P. Janis, The Art of French Calotype: with a critical dictionary of photographers, 1845- 1870 , Princeton: Princeton UP, 1983, pl. 36, dated c. 1853 S. Aubenas & P.L. Roubert, Primitifs de la photographie: le calotype en France 1843-1860 , Paris: BNF, 2010, p. 193, dated about 1851-1853 Catalogue Essay Little is known about Pierre-Émile-Joseph Pécarrère, who has been referred to in the past as Em Pec, Pecquerel, and Edmond or Emmanuel Pec. In The Art of French Caloptype , André Jammes and Eugenia Parry Janis argue that unlike other photographers of the time, Pécarrère ‘had a taste for broad murky shadows and catered more liberally to his preference for painterly light’ (p. 230). Photographing in France and Italy in the early 1850s, Pécarrère is known for his photographs of churches and his use of figures to animate the scene. In Femme en Prière , offered here, he expertly captures a moment of piety as the light circles the woman, hitting the sculpture in the background. This work was included in the Primitifs de la photographie exhibition in Paris in 2010-2011, marking it as one of Pécarrère’s signature images. This print has a distinguished provenance, having come from art and architectural historian Yvan Christ, who at one point had the largest and most important collection of works by Pécarrère. Acquired by André Jammes in the 1970s, this print was then sold in the historic sale of his collection in 2008. We extend our sincere thanks to André Jammes for his expertise and assistance in our research. Read More

Auction archive: Lot number 8
Auction:
Datum:
1 Nov 2018
Auction house:
Phillips
London
Beschreibung:

ULTIMATE Early French Masterworks from the Hyman Collection Pierre-Émile-Joseph Pécarrère Follow Femme en Prière [Woman in Prayer] likely 1851-1853 Salt print from a waxed paper negative, mounted later. Image/sheet: 23.7 x 15.4 cm (9 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.) Mount: 45 x 33 cm (17 3/4 x 12 7/8 in.) This work is the only known print of this image to date and is likely unique.
Condition Report Sign up or Log in Provenance Collection of Yvan Christ, Paris Collection of Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes, Paris, 1970s Sotheby's, Paris, La Photographie IV: Collection Marie-Thérèse et André Jammes , 15 November 2008, lot 33 Serge Plantureux, Paris, 2010 The Hyman Collection, London Exhibited Primitifs de la photographie: le calotype en France 1843-1860 , Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 19 October 2010 - 16 January 2011, this lot Literature A. Jammes & E. P. Janis, The Art of French Calotype: with a critical dictionary of photographers, 1845- 1870 , Princeton: Princeton UP, 1983, pl. 36, dated c. 1853 S. Aubenas & P.L. Roubert, Primitifs de la photographie: le calotype en France 1843-1860 , Paris: BNF, 2010, p. 193, dated about 1851-1853 Catalogue Essay Little is known about Pierre-Émile-Joseph Pécarrère, who has been referred to in the past as Em Pec, Pecquerel, and Edmond or Emmanuel Pec. In The Art of French Caloptype , André Jammes and Eugenia Parry Janis argue that unlike other photographers of the time, Pécarrère ‘had a taste for broad murky shadows and catered more liberally to his preference for painterly light’ (p. 230). Photographing in France and Italy in the early 1850s, Pécarrère is known for his photographs of churches and his use of figures to animate the scene. In Femme en Prière , offered here, he expertly captures a moment of piety as the light circles the woman, hitting the sculpture in the background. This work was included in the Primitifs de la photographie exhibition in Paris in 2010-2011, marking it as one of Pécarrère’s signature images. This print has a distinguished provenance, having come from art and architectural historian Yvan Christ, who at one point had the largest and most important collection of works by Pécarrère. Acquired by André Jammes in the 1970s, this print was then sold in the historic sale of his collection in 2008. We extend our sincere thanks to André Jammes for his expertise and assistance in our research. Read More

Auction archive: Lot number 8
Auction:
Datum:
1 Nov 2018
Auction house:
Phillips
London
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