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Eadweard  Muybridge:   Animal Locomotion Plate 394
 
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Description
Title: Animal Locomotion Plate 394
Style: Modern
Medium: Photographs, Other, Calotype
Year: 1887
Size: height - 9 in, width - 12.5 in, depth - 0 in cm
Markings: unsigned, unsigned, plate number and title on recto below print
Estimate: from US$1,200 to US$1,800

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Paper Size 19 x 24 inches
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      Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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      Item Location: New Jersey, USA
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    Horseback rider, pl.637 (from Animal Locomotion), 1887
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    Estimate: US$829 Sold for US$1,243


    Galerie Bassenge:
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  • Eadweard Muybridge
    Plate 94 - from Animal locomotion (+ 3 others; 4 works), 1887
    collotypes
    18.9 in. x 23.8 in. / 47.9 cm. x 60.3 cm.

    Estimate: US$1,200 - 1,500 Sold for US$1,920


    Rago Auctions:
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  • Eadweard Muybridge
    Plates 572 - from Animal locomotion (+ 2 others; 3 works), 1887
    collotypes
    18.9 in. x 23.8 in. / 47.9 cm. x 60.3 cm.

    Estimate: US$900 - 1,200 Sold for US$1,440


    Rago Auctions:
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Eadweard Muybridge
Horseback rider, pl.637 (from Animal Locomotion) , 1887
Sold for US$1,243
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Eadweard Muybridge
Plate 94 - from Animal locomotion (+ 3 others; 4 works) , 1887
Sold for US$1,920
Friday, May 15, 2009
Eadweard Muybridge
Plates 572 - from Animal locomotion (+ 2 others; 3 works) , 1887
Sold for US$1,440
Friday, May 15, 2009
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Biography & Links
Eadweard Muybridge Biography
1830
Born Edward James Muggeridge at Kingston upon Thames, England.
1855
Arrived in San Francisco, starting his career as a publisher's agent and bookseller.
1867
Began to build his reputation with photos of Yosemite and San Francisco.
1868
Commissioned to photograph one of the U.S. Army's expeditions.
1874
Still living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Muybridge discovered that his wife had a lover, a Major Harry Larkyns. On October 17, he sought out Larkyns; said, "Good evening, Major, my name is Muybridge and here is the answer to the letter you sent my wife"; he then followed and killed the Major with a gunshot. He was aquitted after a plea of instanity resulting from an injury due to a stage coach accident.
1877
Returned to the United States after photographing Central America.

Started to experiment with photographing motion in response to former Governor of California Leland Stanford, a businessman and race-horse owner's question of whether all four of a horse's hooves left the ground at the same time during a gallop.
1878
Successfully photographed a horse in fast motion.
1894
Returned to his native England.
1904
Died on May 8 in Kingston upon Thames while living at the home of his cousin Catherine Smith.
Selected Exhibitions
1998
Men in Motion, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2003
Michael Dawson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2004
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
2005
Men, Women and Animals, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2005
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
2007
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC (solo)
2008
Ton Peek Photography, Pa Utrecht, Netherlands (solo)
2009
Münchner Stadtmuseum - Sammlung Fotografie, Muchen, Germany
2010
25 Years / 25 Works, Wessel + O’Connor Fine Arts, Lambertville, NJ
2010
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, England

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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