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    • VAN DEREN COKE Nude Rhythm of Shape 1956
      Dec. 05, 2020

      VAN DEREN COKE Nude Rhythm of Shape 1956

      Est: $600 - $800

      VAN DEREN COKE, Eleanor Sleeping, 1956, 7.625x9.375" Gelatin silver print, Printed c. 1956, Initialed and dated in pencil on mount recto below lower right of print. Frank Van Deren Coke (1921-2004) was born in Lexington, Kentucky. As a young man, he was drawn to photography, and for a time worked as an assistant to Ansel Adams in Carmel, California. He graduated from the University of Kentucky with a degree in history and art history. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at Indiana University and did additional graduate work at Harvard. Ultimately, Coke settled on a career in academia, teaching at the University of Florida and then at Arizona State, before becoming chairman of the art department and founding director of the art museum at the University of New Mexico. He left the Southwest in 1970 to work at the George Eastman House, where he broadened the museum’s focus beyond mere photography to be more inclusive of film and technology. But he was there for only a couple of years before returning to New Mexico. In 1979, he was hired as curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where he oversaw the establishment of a department of photography. He embarked on an aggressive acquisition program, expanding the focus of the museum’s holdings to include highly experimental, design-related images produced in Germany, France, and Czechoslovakia.  In his own photographic work, Coke used numerous devices in printing, including solarization and montage. For several years, he also used a darkroom technique in which he flashed a white light as the print was developing. This tended to blur the literalism of the image while retaining its link to reality. According to curator Robert Sobieszek, "Van was an iconoclast. He understood the canon of straight photography, but he also really appreciated the experimental approach. The overriding contribution he made -- and it was stupendous -- is that he kept alive an interest in experimental photography, alternative photography, photography as printmaking, photography as an expansive rather than an exclusive medium."

      Andrew Smith Gallery Photography Auctions, LLC
    • Photographs, Van Deren Coke
      Jan. 15, 2017

      Photographs, Van Deren Coke

      Est: $600 - $900

      (lot of 2) Van Deren Coke (American, 1921-2004), "Mexico DF," 1985, and "Paris," 1978, cibachrome photographs, each signed, sights: 8.75"h x 13.5"w/6.5"h x 9.75"w, overalls (each with frame): 16.75"h x 20.5"w sight: 6.5"h x 9.75"w, Provenance: Letter from Vision Gallery (San Francisco, CA) included with this lot

      Clars Auctions
    • Photograph, Van Deren Coke, Paris
      Nov. 13, 2016

      Photograph, Van Deren Coke, Paris

      Est: $600 - $900

      Van Deren Coke (American, 1921-2004), "Paris," 1978, cibachrome photograph, signed verso, sight: 8.75"h x 13.5"w, overall (with frame): 16.75"h x 20.5"w.

      Clars Auctions
    • Photograph, Van Deren Coke, Mexico DF
      Nov. 13, 2016

      Photograph, Van Deren Coke, Mexico DF

      Est: $600 - $900

      Van Deren Coke (American, 1921-2004), "Mexico DF," 1985, cibachrome photograph, signed, sight: 6.5"h x 9.75"w, overall (with frame): 16.75"h x 20.5"w. Provenance: letter from Vision Gallery (San Francisco, CA) included with this lot

      Clars Auctions
    • Photograph, Van Deren Coke, London
      Apr. 10, 2011

      Photograph, Van Deren Coke, London

      Est: $400 - $600

      Unframed gelatin silver print, ''London,'' 1993, by Van Deren Coke (American, 1921-2004), initialed and dated in pencil ''VC '93'' (on mat) lower right, titled, dated and signed (on mat) verso, overall: 7.25''h x 9.5''w

      Clars Auctions
    • Photograph
      Dec. 08, 2010

      Photograph

      Est: €800 - €1,000

      Photographs: Van Deren Coke, Frank 1921 Lexington, Kentucky - 2004 Albuquerque Eleanor Sleeping. 1956. Vintage. Gelatin silver print. Original backing board. Mat. 19,3 x 23,9cm. Inscribed "VC56" below the image on the right in pencil. Very light soiling (barely visible).

      Van Ham Kunstauktionen
    • Van Deren Coke (American, 1921-2004); Homage to Strand #1;
      Dec. 21, 2009

      Van Deren Coke (American, 1921-2004); Homage to Strand #1;

      Est: $400 - $600

      Homage to Strand #1, 1941 Gelatin silver print, initialed and dated in pencil on the mount, with typed title affixed to the mount verso, in very good condition aside from 1/2in crack in the emulsion in upper right quadrant, a band of unobtrusive horizontal rubs at the top edge of image, light surface soiling at the mount edges and on mount verso, glue remains and an area of light skinning on mount verso, framed. 3 x 6in

      Bonhams
    • Van Deren Coke (American, 1921-2004); Homage to Strand #1;
      Dec. 20, 2009

      Van Deren Coke (American, 1921-2004); Homage to Strand #1;

      Est: $400 - $600

      Homage to Strand #1, 1941 Gelatin silver print, initialed and dated in pencil on the mount, with typed title affixed to the mount verso, in very good condition aside from 1/2in crack in the emulsion in upper right quadrant, a band of unobtrusive horizontal rubs at the top edge of image, light surface soiling at the mount edges and on mount verso, glue remains and an area of light skinning on mount verso, framed. 3 x 6in

      Bonhams
    • Van Deren Coke (American, 1921-2004); Homage to Strand #1;
      Sep. 20, 2009

      Van Deren Coke (American, 1921-2004); Homage to Strand #1;

      Est: $800 - $1,000

      Homage to Strand #1, 1941 Gelatin silver print, initialed and dated in pencil on the mount, with typed title affixed to the mount verso, in very good condition aside from 1/2in crack in the emulsion in upper right quadrant, a band of unobtrusive horizontal rubs at the top edge of image, light surface soiling at the mount edges and on mount verso, glue remains and an area of light skinning on mount verso, framed. 3 x 6in

      Bonhams
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