Artist Index: Stone, Sasha

Stone, Sasha. Femmes. 20 Planches. Collection d'Études Photographiques du Corps Humain No.1 (alles Erschienene). Mit 20 (inkl. VDeckelillustration) Phototafeln. 31 x 24,5 cm. Lose Blätter in OFlügelkartonmappe (diese etwas berieben) mit photographischer VDeckelillustration. Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1933.
Koetzle 388. – Erste Ausgabe. Die bemerkenswerte Reihe ist Sasha Stones (1895-1940) zweite eigenständige Publikation. – Tafeln in sauberer Erhaltung.

The actress Tilla Durieux at home, Berlin. Circa 1926. 2 vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver prints. 23 x 17 cm. Mounted to both sides of album page (tears, traces of use), copyright stamp Atelier Stone..., Berlin W 10, Kaiserin-Augusta-Strasse 69 on the verso (not fully visible due to mounting).

The images show the actress Tilla Durieux at home with her Siamese cat Minkusch. Additional photos show the very stylish interior of her apartment.
For other photos of Tilla Durieux, see lots 4123-4126. – Some mirroring, some crease marks, otherwise in good condition. With: Sasha Stone. Interiors of Tilla Durieux's apartment. 5 vintage gelatin silver prints. Each circa 16 x 22,5 cm. Each with photographer's/copyright stamp and number in pencil on the verso. - Some corners bumped, one with stronger crease in lower right corner, some mirroring in edges, otherwise in good condition.

Female nude, from the 'Femmes' series. 1933. Vintage gelatin silver print on doubleweight chamois paper. 27,8 x 37,5 cm. Annotated in pencil on the verso.

Slight mirroring in edges more visible at an angle, otherwise a strong tonal print in very good condition.

Lit.: Eckhardt Köhn (ed.). Sasha Stone. Fotografien 1925-1939 (exhibition catalogue). Berlin 1990, ill. p. 108.

Berlin: Schloßbrücke; Opernplatz. Circa 1928. 2 vintage, warm-toned, ferrotyped gelatin silver prints. Each circa 18 x 23,7 cm. Each with photographer's/copyright stamp (Cami Stone), with press text label, therein annotated in pencil on the verso.

Slightly buckled, a few light handling marks, otherwise in good condition.

Views of Potsdam. Circa 1927/28. 15 vintage gelatin silver prints. Circa 22 x 17 cm and 18 x 24 cm. Most with 2-3 photographer's/copyright stamps, (Paris, Berlin, Brussels), some with typed press text label and annotated in red ink/pencil on the verso.

Some of the images offered here were published in the book "Berlin in Bildern" edited by Adolf Behne with photographs by Sasha Stone,1929. – Some with oxidation mirroring in edges, some handling creases, some corners bumped, a few small tears in edges, otherwise in good condition.

Lit.: Adolf Behne (ed.). Berlin in Bildern. Vienna 1929.