JOCK STURGES GIANT 30X40 PHOTOGRAPH MONTALIVET FRANCE 1 Start Price USD 3,000.00 Current Price USD 3,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, July 19, 2008 End Time Saturday, July 26, 2008 Location POMONA, NEW YORK See more about 'JOCK STURGES GIANT 30X40 PHOTOGRAPH MONTALIVET FRANCE 1' Description              Please note, USA bidders only for this auction if you want the frame with it!    I am a long time private collector, NOT A DEALER!      475 PERFECT feedbacks!  GIANT JOCK STURGES PHOTOGRAPH R. J. MONTALIVET, FRANCE, 2003  IMAGE IS CONSIDERED 30" X 40" (really 33x41) I can arrange viewing before purchase in the PARAMUS NEW JERSEY area. Please hit "ask seller a question" button to arrange viewing OR ASK ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.   EDITION NUMBER 1 OF 10!   GIANT SIZED, this photograph would fill an entire wall! Compare the size to the wine bottle and 12 ounce soda can above. Sorry for the Flash Glare and the image is a little washed out. See below for better color as it appears in person. Great female image, soft background. What a Photograph!   Titled, signed, dated, #1 of 10 and paper embossed stamped. This is the LARGEST Jock Sturgest Photograph I've ever seen, ANYWHERE.   Purchased at last years BAILEY HOUSE PARTY AND AUCTION without my wife in attendance. For some reason my loving wife does not think this work of art should hang above our fireplace so I promised her I would try to sell it.  MY LOSS IS YOUR GAIN! Hard to read, but auction catalog with no image has GALLERY VALUE 18 months ago (NOT including frame, price increases and NYC SALES TAX) as $5000.00. I have started this auction at $3000 and it is already matted and framed AND THERE IS NO 8.65% NYC SALES TAX being collected!!!  This Photograph is the highest, museum-grade quality color digital pigment print donated directly from the photographer. THIS INFORMATION IS FROM A DEALER'S ON-LINE GALLERY WITH NEW 2008 PRICES, I'a not even certain if this image is still available from them AT ANY PRICE!... http://www.buttersgallery.com/Artist-Info.cfm?ArtistsID=411&Object= Jock Sturges color digital pigment prints are available in three sizes:16" x 20" in an edition of 25, 20" x 24" in an edition of 25, and 30" x 40" in an edition of 10. Prices are based on the number sold in the editions.16" x 20" edition:#1-#10 are $1,200 unframed,#11-#20 are $1,500 unframed, #21-#25 are $1,800 unframed. 20" x 24" edition:#1-#10 are $2,600 unframed,#11-#20 are $3,000 unframed,#21-#25 are $3,600 unframed. 30" x 40" edition:#1-#5 are $5,000 unframed,#6-#8 are $6,500 unframed,and #9-#10 are $7,000 unframed. This is numbered # 1 of 10, so by the above information this Gallery's price for this 30x40 would be $5,000 plus mat and frame PLUS SALES TAX. Be it #1 or # 10, you still get the exact same $7,000.00 image and once all 10 are sold out you will pay the highest ISSUED price or MORE. I really DO NOT want to cut open the backing paper to check for any more photographic detail. Bidding was fierce, but what the heck, it was for a GREAT CHARITY CAUSE. This photograph has not even been on display since the auction. Orginial frame and paper backing on frame. Currently in my bedroom closet wrapped in bubble paper. I can arrange viewing before purchase in the PARAMUS NEW JERSEY area.    Sorry for poor images...  Glare and poor lighting is my curse tonight! Jock Sturges' sensual photographs have been featured in museums throughout the world. His subjects include women, men and children who live in communities where nudity is part of the accepted lifestyle. The secluded beauty of Northern California's rivers and woods and the beaches of Montalivet in France provide a dramatic setting forn Sturges' photographs. Jock usually spends weeks or months with his subjects, and they feel like his collaborators. Sturges accomplishes in his open-ended projects the continuing investigation into the engagement between public and private life, between tact and frankness, childhood and adolescence, male and female, artist and model. These stately images reflect self-revelation, trust, admiration, and the inevitable passage from adolescence to adulthood.After Jock's studio was raided by the FBI in 1991, a grand jury declined to indict him on charges of child pornography on constitutional free speech ground. Since then, more than 40 protests have been staged at various bookstores across the country.Jock Sturges is a fine art photographer who lives in Seattle, Washington. Best known for his nudes and extended portraits of families in Northern California counter-culture communities, Ireland and on French naturist beaches, his large format images borrow significantly from classical periods in both photography and nineteenth and early twentieth century painting. Represented by 25 galleries in nine countries, Mr. Sturges work is also to be found in the collections of many of the world’s museums including The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and The Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art in Germany. His published works include Jock Sturges (Scalo, Zurich, 1996), published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, another Scalo monograph entitled Jock Sturges New Work 1996 - 2000, published in October, 2000, and most recently, a monograph entitled, Notes, published by Aperture in New York and a limited edition monograph entitled 25 Years published by the Cava Gallery of Philadelphia. Other titles to his name include: The Last Day of Summer (Aperture, N.Y., 1992), Radiant Identities (Aperture, N.Y., 1994) and Evolutions of Grace (Gakken, Tokyo, 1994).Mr. Sturges also has lent his work to the world of fashion with assignments for magazines such as French Vogue, Russian Vogue, Japan Vogue, TEN, Vitals, POP, Exit and others.Jock Sturges travels to photograph, lecture and teach throughout the world but is reliably to be found working on the beaches of France almost any late summer afternoon. SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS FOR OTHER TOP 100  PHOTOGRAPHERS WORK (ranked as per American Photographer Magazine). USA Shipping will be $200.00 or less if you want the frame or $50.00 rolled and shipped with NO FRAME.  Insurance required (amount depends on final price). WORLDWIDE bidders OK for rolled shipping. Any "outside the USA collectors" may want to contact a USA dealer, friend or relative to act as your middle man for faster service. Postal Money Orders, Bank Transfers or Certified Check best. Please note this is a 7 day auction that will end on a weekday LATE AT NIGHT. We reserve the right to cancel any bids and/or end auction early if photograph becomes unavailable.  SORRY, NO PAYPAL IN MOST CASES! FREE Pick-up or $30 weekend delivery with-in 25 miles of Paramus, New Jersey.  Please e-mail any questions before the last two days of auction.  THANKS!!   PERFECT GIFT FOR ANY PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTOR ON YOUR LIST!! 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