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PESSL, FREDERICK V. [1901-1957] §
SLEEPING BEAUTY
£400
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
photograph on Geva Luxe velours, 480 x 381mm, framed and glazed, c.1950
Footnote
Provenance: Shown at the Glasgow Art Club in March 1951; Accepted by the Sixteenth Western Ontario International Salon of Photography in September 1951; shown at the Internationale Udstillung af Billedmaessig Fotografi I in Copenhagen, 1952; accepted by the 56th Annual International Exhibition of the Birmingham Photographic Society in 1952; Shown at the Lucknow International Salon of Photography in 1953; shown at the 6th Salon International d'Art Photographique in Bordeaux in 1954; shown at the Windlesham Camera Exhibition in 1955
Note: Little is known about Frederick Pessl. He was born in 1901 in Vienna and died in 1957 aged 55, in Glasgow. After being imprisoned in Auschwitz during the Second World War, Pessl survived the Holocaust and moved to Glasgow in the 1940s, where his work is held in local collections, alongside collections in Leeds. Although he trained as an architect, he had a clear talent for photography, as seen in this almost painterly example of a semi-nude woman sleeping before a tapestry.