Dieter Appelt - The Arc of Photography: A Private East Coast Collection New York Tuesday, October 4, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

  • Catalogue Essay

    The title of Dieter Appelt’s photograph quotes the French poet, novelist and playwright Raymond Roussel, lauded for his legions of delirious word images by his Surrealist contemporaries. Appelt, as Head of the Film, Video, and Photography Department at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, relies on photography as a means of recording his performances. In the current lot, viewers are met with a still of Appelt’s enactment of one of Roussel’s famous quotes. The resulting image, therefore, is a momentary, performative record of the self en route to a vanishing mark.

    Other prints of this image are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Art Institute of Chicago.

THE ARC OF PHOTOGRAPHY: A PRIVATE EAST COAST COLLECTION

220

Der Fleck auf dem Spiegel, den der Atemhauch schafft, (The Mark on the Mirror Breathing Makes)

1977
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
19 5/8 x 23 1/2 in. (49.8 x 59.7 cm).
Signed, titled, dated, numbered 'e.a.', title attributed to 'Raymond Roussel' and inscribed in ink, 'Carmerstrasse 19, 10623 Berlin' credit and copyright stamps on the verso.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $13,750

The Arc of Photography: A Private East Coast Collection

4 October 2011 6PM
New York