Lot 309
Len Lye
Self Portrait (with Night Tree) together with a photograph copy of the original proof
hand worked photograph of a photogram together with a black and white photograph of the same image
signed and dated 1947 and inscribed 'The black silhouette is from a shadow cast by overhead light (in 1947 NYC) on unexposed paper, then dev. and fixed. The same technique (with stencils) was used in 1952 - 3 for the film Color Cry. NYC. A 'Shadowgraph' verso
253mm x 205mm
$4,000 - $6,000

Illustrated: A similar work is illustrated in Len Lye, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Len Lye Foundation, 2009 p. 92
Provenance: Gifted to the current vendor by the artist in 1979

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