Penthésilée VI, 1937

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RODOLPHE RAOUL UBAC (1910–1985)
Penthésilée VI, 1937
gelatin silver print
blindstamped initial, date and numbered ‘1 / 10’ (recto); credited, titled, dated and annotated ‘Grand Fragment Cliché Disponible’ in pencil by an unknown hand (verso)
image/sheet: 15 ¾ x 11 ½ in. (40 x 29.2 cm.)
This work is number one from an edition of ten.

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Christie's, New York, April 26, 2005, lot 103;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

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Images from Ubac’s Penthesilee series first appeared in Minotaure 10, in 1937. To create these fantastical images, Ubac continually reworked imagery related to the classical myth of the slain Amazon queen, Penthesilea. For Ubac, she was a metaphor for a perpetual cycle of ruin and rebirth.

Penthésilée VI, 1937

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