jock sturges / THE LAST DAY OF SUMMER #2, MONTALIVET, FRANCE, 1989 epson digital pigment print ,
40 x 30
inches ,
3/10
signed by the artist courtesy of the artist and bernarducci - meisel gallery , new york
This sensitive portrait graces the cover of Jock Sturges’s first monograph, The Last Day of Summer, featuring images taken in Northern California and on the naturist beaches of France’s Atlantic coast. The book was published in 1991, after the FBI had confiscated the artist’s negatives and other materials from his studio in a raid. (This incident was discussed in the 1990 “Body in Question” issue of Aperture magazine.) The case was eventually dismissed and the materials returned. Aperture was proud to join in Sturges’s defense and to continue to publish his work, including Radiant Identities (1994), Jock Sturges: Notes (2004), and Misty Dawn: Portrait of a Muse (2008). estimated retail value :
LOT 53
$5,200