Dain L. Tasker

Lot 66: TASKER, DAIN L. (1872-1964) "Eucalyptus, An X-Ray."

Name: TASKER, DAIN L. (1872-1964) "Eucalyptus, An X-Ray."
Brand: Swann Auction Galleries
SKU: vrhzbrxd7x

Est: $12,000 USD - $18,000 USDSold:

Swann Auction GalleriesNew York, NY, USFebruary 07, 2008

Item Overview

Description

TASKER, DAIN L. (1872-1964)
"Eucalyptus, An X-Ray." Bromide contact print, 9 1/4x7 1/2 inches (23.5x19.1 cm.), with Tasker's signature, title, and date, in pencil, on the two-toned mount recto, and his title and notations, in pencil, address label, and "Festival of Arts" exhibition label, on mount verso. 1932

Artist or Maker

Dain L. Tasker

Condition Report

All items are offered for sale subject to Swann Galleries'' standard terms and conditions of sale, which are published in our catalogues.

Notes

From a private collection; by agent, to the present owner in 1998.

Throughout the 1930s Dr. Dain L. Tasker, a radiologist, used fine-focus X-ray tubes to produce floral studies on X-ray film. Published in "U. S. Camera" and "Popular Photography" magazines, and tutored by the photographer Will Connell, Tasker''s work was hailed for its beauty. However, after his death, his oeuvre fell into obscurity and has only recently been rediscovered and recognized as the work of a masterful artist.

"Flowers are the expression of the love life of plants," Tasker once wrote. Sublime in their minimalist sensibility, Tasker''s images of flowers are ethereal, ghost-like representations of this frequently photographed subject. The inherent transparency of Tasker''s chosen medium also reveals the strength of the plant''s structure, lending the image a sort of eroticism and dynamic modernism.

Auction Details

FINE PHOTOGRAPHS

Swann Auction Galleries

February 07, 2008, 02:30 PM EST

104 East 25th Street, New York, NY, 10010, US

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