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Description: Rhamnus Purshiana (Buckthorn) Kreuzdorngew„chs Junger Spross Gelatin silver print. 1920s. Initialled and annotated 30-4,5, credited, titled and annotated 30x...(ie. magnified 30 times) in another hand, signed and dated Nov.94 by Wilde, all in pencil, Archiv Wilde K”ln credit stamp on verso. 113/4 x 9 3/8in. (28.9 x 23.9cm.) PROVENANCE From the Estate of Karl Blossfeldt; to Archiv Wilde K”ln; to the present owner. LITERATURE See: Blossfeldt, Urformen der Kunst, pl. 8; Bataille and Mattenklott, Karl Blossfeldt, Art Forms in Nature, pl. 8b.