Auction on
15 April 2021 - 14:30 (CEST) -
5, rue Vincent Courdouan - 13006 Marseille
A photographer, traveler, businessman and much more, this fascinating figure is revealed through 83 negatives soon up for sale in Marseille.
Félix Bonfils (1831-1885), Acropole et arc d’Adrien. Athènes (Athens: The Acropolis and Hadrian’s Arch), 1867-1875, collodion glass plate negative signed "Bonfils", numbered "255" in ink in the emulsion in the lower left on the front, 30 x 40 cm. (11.81 x 15.74 in). Estimate: €3,000/4,000
Félix Bonfils (1831-1885), Acropole et arc d’Adrien. Athènes (Athens: The Acropolis and Hadrian’s Arch), 1867-1875, collodion glass plate negative signed "Bonfils", numbered "255" in ink in the emulsion in the lower left on the front, 30 x 40 cm. (11.81 x 15.74 in). Estimate: €3,000/4,000
Born in the Gard, Félix Bonfils (1831-1885) trained as a bookbinder and printer but became a photographer. In 1871 the Société Française de Photographie gave him a medal in Paris for his work in the Middle East . To mark the occasion, he published a catalog of 15,000 prints, 9,000 stereoscopic views and 591 negatives, 83 of which will be up for sale with estimates ranging from €300 to €6,000. In the 2000s, this rare group…
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