Sheila Metzner (American, b.1939)

LOT ID: 78733

Borneo Girl, 1985

Other, Fresson print

24.5 х 16 in. (62.23 x 40.64 cm.)

Signed, lower left recto, and embossed with printer's blindstamp, center of lower margin, recto. Signed, dated with verification that print is unique on verso. Inscribed, "For my Richard, with love Sheila" on verso.

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Lot description

Printed in 1987. Image size is 24.5 x 16.5 inches (62.23 x 41.91 cm). Sheet size is 32 x 24 inches (81.28 x 60.96 cm).

Sheila Metzner has worked in several genres – fashion, still life, landscape and portraiture – rendered in her signature, evocative style. Her photographs share a stylistic unity, as each is imbued with a sensual romanticism, conveyed by soft patinas and rich, deep tones. Joko, Passion is an example of her haute couture photography from her years at Vanity Fair and Vogue.

Metzner is well known for her use of the Fresson printing process "tirage au charbon," a rare method of color printing developed in France in 1900, which renders characteristically diffused images, reminiscent of pointillism, with remarkable tonal range and color saturation. The Fresson process is carried out by hand by the descendants of the inventor - Metzner is one of only ten American photographers with whom they have chosen to collaborate. The process uses layered oil pigments in gelatin and requires between four to seven separate negatives, yielding luminous, glowing colors. Prints are developed in a solution of water and sawdust, which creates a softened, painterly effect.

Born in Brooklyn in 1939, Sheila Metzner studied visual communications and worked as a commercial art director for several years before her photographs came to the attention of the art world following her inclusion in the 1978 landmark exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art entitled “Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960,” selected by celebrated curator John Szarkowski. Following the exhibition at MoMA, her work was the subject of several solo gallery shows, which led to commissioned editorial work for Vogue, Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone and commercial work for clients such as Valentino, Perry Ellis, Fendi, Ralph Lauren, and Elizabeth Arden, among others.

Sheila Metzner’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography and the Brooklyn Museum, among other institutions and private collections. Her work has been on view in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris, the Kunstforum Landerbank in Austria, the Royal College of Art in London and a solo exhibition at the International Center of Photography. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Art Director’s Hall of Fame, the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography and the Ansel Adams Award for Book Photography. Metzner is the author of four monographs: Objects of Desire (Polaroid/Clarkson N. Potter); Sheila Metzner’s Color (Twin Palms); Inherit the Earth (Bullfinch Press); and Form and Fashion (Arena Press). [SVA]

Literature and Catalogue Raisoneé
Literature and Catalogue Raisoneé
Publication:

Metzner, Sheila. New York / Sheila Metzner ; poems by Walt Whitman ; edited by John Wood. [New York] : Steven Albahari, [2001] Metzner, Sheila. Sheila Metzner: Form and Fashion ; Ralph Lauren (Foreword), M. Raven Metzner (Introduction), Sheila Metzner (Photographs). Santa Fe, NM. : Arena Editions, 2001. Metzner, Sheila. Inherit the earth / Sheila Metzner. Boston, MA : Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown, 2000. Metzner, Sheila. Sheila Metzner : color. Altadena, Calif. : Twin Palms Publishers, 1991. Metzner, Sheila. Objects of desire / Sheila Metzner, photographs ; preface by Mark Strand ; [edited by Constance Sullivan]. New York : Clarkson N. Potter : Distributed by Crown, c1986.
History and Provenance
History and Provenance
Provenance:
Richard Bergeron, NYC, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Bridgewater Fine Arts, NYC
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LOT ID: 78733

Borneo Girl, 1985