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This work is from August Sander's open-ended and ultimately incomplete photography project titled People of the Twentieth Century. His goal was to photograph a cross-section of German society and he divided the series into seven sections: The Farmer, The Skilled Tradesman, Woman, Classes and Professions, The Artists, The City, and The Last People (including the homeless and other disen-franchised people). Circus Artiste is thought to have been taken when the Barnum Circus traveled to the Rhineland cities of Dortmund, Remscheid, and Cologne. Among the first works by the artist to enter the collections.
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DimensionsBoard: 17 3/8 × 13 3/8 in. (44.1 × 34 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 1/2 in. (26 × 19.1 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 1/2 in. (26 × 19.1 cm)
Accession Number 2019.18
Classificationsphotograph
SignedG Sander 91 (l,l verso, graphite)
Inscriptions1/12/91/3/37/2 (l,l verso, graphite); 3-L8 (l,l verso graphite); © AUGUST SANDER ARCHIVE, ASA#3/37/2 (numbers written in black ink), Edition 1991, Ed.# 1/12 (1 written in black ink) (l,l verso, stamp in black ink); AUGUST SANDER MENSCHEN DES ZWANZIGSTEN JAHRHUNDERTS (August Sander Archive paper label on mount verso); © AUGUST SANDER ARCHIVE, ASA#3/37/2 (numbers written in black ink), Edition 1991, Ed.# 1/12 (1 written in black ink) (mount verso, stamp in black ink); CTL 351, NB VI/37/ 3 (l,c mount verso in black ink)
Catalogue raisonnéNB VI/37/3; CTC 351
Edition1/12
MarksAUG. SANDER KÖLN LINDENTHAL (l,l stamp)
Célestin François Nanteuil
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