Fine Photographs
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Chairman
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Vice President & Director, African American Art
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Vice President & Director, Books & Manuscripts
Administration
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Client Accounting
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Julia margaret cameron (1815-1879)
A Study [O hark! O hear!].
Albumen print, the image measuring 5½x4¼ inches (14x10.8 cm.), mounted to a contemporary board 15x11¾ inches (38.1x29.8 cm.), with a small clipped sheet with the notation “A Study,” in ink, in Cameron’s hand, also on mount recto. [1875]
Cox & Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs (The J. Paul Getty Museum), p. 479, pl. 1183.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Edwin hale lincoln (1848-1938)
A suite of 14 delicate botanical studies from Wild Flowers of New England.
Platinum prints, the images measuring 9¼x7¼ inches (23.5x18.4 cm.), the deckle-edged sheets 15x13 inches (38.1x33 cm.), each with a printed number and caption, in English and in Latin, on recto; each print in a custom frame, with a Richard York Gallery label on the reverse. 1914
Edwin Hale Lincoln moved to the Berkshire area in 1893, less than 10 years after taking up photography. He had previously been a drummer boy during the Civil War and a page in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, but now largely made his living photographing large yachts and estates, as well as the burgeoning Berkshire “summer cottages.”
Lincoln’s spare aesthetic contrasted with the Photo-Secessionist’s concurrent embrace of Pictorialism, and instead his clean images can be seen within the context of the American Arts & Crafts movement (his work was published in Gustav Stickley’s The Craftsman, where they received warm praise). In many ways a precursor to later, “straight” landscape photography prominent on the West Coast, Lincoln’s quiet botanical studies both elevate his subject matter as well as elegantly reveal the plants’ detailed, quiet complexities.
Lincoln began working on this series in the early 1890s and finished it in 1914. He printed the photographs and produced sets for subscribers.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Peter henry emerson (1856-1936)
Cutting the Gladdon * Coming Home from the Marshes * The Fringe of the Marsh.
Together, 3 platinum prints, the images measuring 7⅜x9⅜ to 7½x11⅜ inches (18.7x23.8 to 19.1x28.9 cm.), the mounts 11¼x16⅛ inches (28.6x41 cm.), each with the original printed tissue overlay. 1886
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Camera work.
Number 2.
Edited by Alfred Stieglitz. Complete with 11 plates of Steichen’s work, comprising 7 photogravures and 4 halftones. 4to, original printed gray wrappers, lightly soiled, backstrip perished and front and back covers detached; the gravures richly printed, but with dampstaining at the left corners.
New York, 1903
The photogravures include: Rodin * The Pool * Self-portrait * Dawn-flowers * Barholomé * Dolor * Lenbach
The halftones include: Besnard * Portrait * Nude with Cat * Judgement of Paris - A Landscape Arrangement
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Alfred stieglitz (1864-1946)
A selection of 5 choice photogravures from Camera Work Number 36.
Photogravures on Japan tissue, the images measuring 5x6½ to 8¼x6⅜ inches (12.7x16.5 to 21x16.2 cm.), and the reverse, each sheet approximately 11x8 inches (27.9x20.3 cm.), and slightly larger, three mounted to the original Camera Work pages. 1906 and 1910-11; printed 1911
A Dirigible, 1910 * The Ferry Boat, 1910 * The Aeroplane, 1910 * Excavating - New York, 1911 * The Swimming Lesson, 1906
From a Private Midwest Collector.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Alfred stieglitz (1864-1946)
Miss S. R. (Sophie Raab), from Camera Work Number 12.
Photogravure on Japan tissue, the image measuring 8x5½ inches (20.3x14 cm.), the sheet 11¾x8¼ inches (29.8x21 cm.). 1905
From an East Coast Collection.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Clarence white (1871-1925)
Boy with Camera Work, from Camera Work Number 9.
Photogravure, the image measuring 7½x5¾ inches (19.1x14.6 cm.), the original tissue mount 11⅞x8⅛ inches (30.2x20.6 cm.), the secondary mount 11⅝x8¼ inches (29.5x21 cm.). 1905
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
(edward steichen) (1879-1973)
Moonrise, Mamaroneck, New York, from The Early Years portfolio.
Photogravure on BFK Rives Paper by Jon Goodman and Richard Benson, the image measuring 10x12⅛ inches (25.4x30.8 cm.), the sheet 20x15¼ inches (50.8x38.7 cm.), with the colophon with Mary Steichen Calderone’s and Beaumont Newhall’s signatures and the edition notation 139, in ink. 1904; printed 1981
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
Edward steichen (1879-1973)
Kendall Lee.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7 inches (24.1x17.8 cm.), the mount 11¼x8½ inches (28.6x21.6 cm.), with Steichen’s credit in the negative. 1927
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Anne brigman (1869-1950)
The Bubble.
Toned silver print, the image measuring 6⅜x8⅞ inches (16.2x22.5 cm.), the primary mount slightly larger, the secondary mount 10x12 inches (25.4x30.5 cm.), with Brigman’s stylized signature and date, in ink, on print recto; in a period frame. 1906
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Alvin langdon coburn (1882-1966)
A Canal in Rotterdam.
Photogravure, the images measuring 11⅞x15⅜ inches (30.2x39.1 cm.), the sheets slightly larger. 1908
WITH–George Bernard Shaw. Photogravure, the image measuring 8⅛x6⅛ inches (20.6x15.6 cm.), the sheet slightly larger. 1904; printed 1913
Acquired from Sotheby's, New York in 1984; to a Private Midwest Collector.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Alvin langdon coburn.
Men of Mark.
London & New York: Duckworth & Co. & Mitchell Kennerley, 1913
Complete with 33 photogravures after Coburn’s iconic portraits of well-known figures, including George Bernard Shaw, Henri Matisse, Henry James, and Theodore Roosevelt. Two of the portraits with notations, in pencil, in the lower margin initialed by a “GM.” The second, under W.D. Howells humorously reads “Indigestion after swallowing Henry James.” Tall 4to, linen-backed gilt-lettered cloth, scattered soiling. FIRST EDITION.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Paul outerbridge jr. (1896-1958)
Advertisement for Marmion Motor Co., New York (montage).
Platinum print, the image measuring 4⅛x9⅜ inches (10.5x23.8 cm.), the mount 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Outerbridge’s Estate stamp and the number “419,” in pencil, on mount verso. Circa 1920
Estimate
$12,000 – $18,000
Karl struss (1886-1981)
A portfolio entitled The Dawn of Color.
With 8 (of 8) charming photographs of a bygone era printed from Struss’ autochromes. Dye transfer prints, the images measuring approximately 9½x7½ inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), each with Struss’ signature, in pencil, on verso. Elephant folio-sized silver-stamped red suede clamshell box; the edition notation 9, in pencil, on the colophon; contents loose as issued. ONE FROM A SPECIAL EDITION OF 20. Los Angeles: Stephen White Gallery, circa 1910-13; printed 1981
Boardwalk, Long Island, circa 1910 * Tennis Match, Hamilton, Bermuda, circa 1913 * Autumn, Long Island, New York, circa 1910 * Ethel Prague with Umbrella, Long Island, circa 1910 * Anna Kindlund, Artist, Long Island, circa 1910 * Still Life with Pewter Vase, New York, circa 1910 * Lower Broadway, New York, circa 1910 * Couch, Ward’s House, Long Island, circa 1910
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Paul strand (1890-1976)
Portfolio entitled I. Photographs of Mexico [The Mexican Portfolio].
With an introduction by Leo Hurwitz. Complete with 20 varnished photogravures, the images measuring approximately 6½x5 to 10x8 inches (16.5x12.7 to 25.4x20.3 cm.), the sheets 15¾x12½ inches (40x31.8 cm.). Folio-sized slipcase, stamped cloth; with Strand’s signature, in ink, on the colophon; contents loose as issued. FIRST EDITION. New York: Virginia Stevens, 1932-33; printed 1940
The extremely scarce first edition of Strand’s stunning production. Each photogravure is spot varnished for optimum effect.
Near Salito * Church, Coapiaxtla * Virgin, San Felipe, Oaxaca * Women of Santa Anna, Michoacan * Men of Santa Anna, Michoacan * Woman, Patzcuaro * Boy, Uruapan * Cristo, Oaxaca * Woman and Boy, Tenancingo * Plaza, State of Puebla * Man with a Hoe, Los Remedios * Calvario, Patzcuaro * Cristo, Tlacochoaya, Oaxaca * Boy, Hidalgo * Woman and Baby, Hidalgo * Girl and Child, Toluca * Cristo with Thorns, Huexotla * Man, Tenancingo * Young Woman and Boy, Toluco * Gateway, Hidalgo.
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Donald mennie.
The Grandeur of the Gorges of the Yangtze.
A.S. Watson & Company/Kelly & Walsh Limited, Shanghai, 1926
Illustrated with fifty photographic studies of China's Yangtze River, including twelve hand-colored silver prints. Small folio, decorative silk binding. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1000 COPIES.
Mennie made these images during two trips on the upper Yangtze River in China: the first on a steamer from Ichang to Chungking, during poor weather, and the second between Ichang and Wan Hsien. The book ends at Chungking, “the great metropolis of Western China,” 1400 miles from the sea. The city is seen across the 700 yard stretch of turbulent water where the current was so strong it could take an hour to cross.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Edward s. curtis (1868-1952)
Castle O’ Dreams.
Blue-toned silver print, the image measuring 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), with Curtis’ signature, copyright, and the notation L.A., in the negative, and his Curtis Studios copyright hand stamp, on verso. Circa 1920
From an East Coast Collection.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Laura gilpin (1891-1979)
Looking Down on the Temple of Warriors, from the top of El Castillo.
Silver print, the image measuring 13½x9⅜ inches (34.3x23.8 cm.), with Gilpin’s signature, title, and notation “Light proof,” in pencil, on verso. 1932
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Imogen cunningham (1883-1976)
Agave.
Silver print, the image measuring 9⅝x7¾ inches (24.4x19.7 cm.), the mount 14½x11½ inches (36.8x29.2 cm.), with Cunningham’s signature and date, in pencil, on mount recto, and a Cunningham Trust label with the typewritten title and negative date, on mount verso. 1920; printed 1970s
From a Private New Jersey Collector.
Estimate
$7,000 – $10,000
Imogen Cunningham's Still Life
Cunningham’s Shell Collection 3 features an array of textures and values, including detail-rich dark grays and blacks and luminous, glittering highlights. Cunningham’s approach in this elegant still life is emblematic of the modernist aesthetic that she is known for and championed, and also a work that hints at abundance, one that is evocatively sensual. This duality characterizes much of her work.
Cunningham’s earliest photography was Pictorialist in nature, but after a 1923 meeting with Edward Weston, she began to favor a modernist approach. Her flora and fauna studies of the 1920s and 30s are often associated with this shift. These distinctly rendered, close up, elemental, and lush renderings of plant life were first shown in the landmark Film und Foto exhibit in Stuttgart in 1929. By 1932 she would be a charter member of the West Coast Group f.64, whose members favored sharp, unfiltered, and unmanipulated imagery. Their direct, or “straight,” photographic approach eschewed compositional manipulation in favor of recording, and certainly this influence can be seen in Shell Collection.
However, Cunningham explored other photographic styles and subjects throughout her long career. “I photograph anything that can be exposed to light,” she said, and indeed here her apparent desire to look closely from all angles and translate to photographic paper form, light, and shape, hints at an emotional appreciation for form and abstraction.
“The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.”
Imogen Cunningham
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Imogen cunningham (1883-1976)
Shell Collection 3.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9⅜ inches (19.1x23.8 cm.), the mount 18x15 inches (45.7x38.1 cm.), with Cunningham’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and her 4540 Harbor View, Oakland, California label and stylized “eye” hand stamp, on mount verso. Circa 1930
Estimate
$15,000 – $25,000
Dain l. tasker (1872-1962)
X-Ray of Hanging Fuchsia.
Silver print, the image measuring 11¼x9 inches (28.6x22.9 cm.), the mount 17x14 inches (43.2x35.6 cm.), with Tasker’s signature, title, and inscription, in ink, on mount recto. 1930s
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Alma lavenson (1897-1989)
Pump and Trough, Hornitos.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7⅞ inches (24.1x20 cm.), the mount 18x14¼ inches (45.7x36.2 cm.), with Lavenson’s signature (Alma R. Lavenson), in pencil, on mount recto, and her Piedmont, California label with the title and date, in pencil and ink, and a San Francisco Society of Women Artists Fifteenth Annual Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art label, with her name, address, and title, in ink, on mount verso. 1940
As far as we know, Lavenson printed from this negative only twice.
From the Estate of Alma Lavenson; to Susan Ehrens, California; to Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, California; to a Private Collection, Florida, in 1992.
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
Imogen cunningham (1883-1976)
Weaving studio, Mills College.
Silver print, the image measuring 5⅝x7½ inches (14.3x19.1 cm.), the mount 14x12 inches (35.6x30.5 cm.), with Cunningham’s Green Street label and the title, in ink, on mount verso. Circa 1940
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Hansel mieth (1909-1998)
Santiago Island, Caribbean (Mad Monkey).
Silver print, the image measuring 13½x10¼ inches (34.3x26 cm.), with Mieth's signature and negative date, in ink, and her credit, in pencil, and a date hand stamp, on verso. 1939
Acquired directly from the photographer. Mieth described the print as vintage upon acquisition.
This image was featured in Life magazine, January 16, 1939, vol. 6, no. 3, p. 17.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Tina modotti (1896-1942)
Study of a Diego Rivera mural at the Ministry of Education, Mexico City.
Silver print, the image measuring 9x6 inches (22.9x15.2 cm.). 1920s
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Guillermo dávila (1898-1990)
Frida.
Silver print, the image measuring 18x10½ inches (45.7x26.7 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Dávila’s signature, title, and negative date, in pencil, on verso. 1935; printed 1980s
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Manuel álvarez bravo (1902-2002)
La Hija de los Danzantes [The Daughter of the Dancers].
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x6¾ inches (24.1x17.1 cm.), the sheet 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), with Bravo’s signature and notation México, in pencil, on verso. 1933; printed 1980s
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Manuel álvarez bravo (1902-2002)
Portfolio entitled Fifteen Photographs.
Edited by Lee Friedlander. Introductory essay by André Breton. Complete with numerous highlights from Bravo's extraordinary career. Silver prints, the images measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, one 11¼x14¼ inches (28.6x36.2 cm.), the mounts 14¾x19¾ inches (37.5x50.2 cm.), each with Bravo's signature and the edition notation 68/75, in pencil, on mount recto. Folio-sized silver-stamped black leather clamshell box with silver pastedowns; with the colophon; contents loose as issued. New York: The Double Elephant Press, 1929-72; printed 1974
Parábola Óptica, 1931 * El Sistema Nervioso del Gran Simpático, 1929 * La Buena Fama Durmiendo, 1938 * El Eclipse, 1933 * El Ensueño, 1931 * Un Poco Alegre y Graciosa, 1942 * Sed Pública, 1934 * La Quema, 1957 * La de las Bellas Artes, 1931 * Trampa Puesta, 1934 * Los Agachados, 1934 * Barda de Panteón, 1967 * Obrero en Huelga, Asesinado, 1934 * Tumba Reciente, 1933 * Paisaje Inventado, 1972.
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$20,000 – $30,000
Manuel álvarez bravo (1902-2002)
Pájaro crepuscular que mecido por el viento, México [Twilight Bird Swayed by the Wind].
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7⅛ inches (24.1x18.1 cm.), the mount 17⅝x14½ inches (44.8x36.8 cm.), with Bravo’s signature and notation México, in pencil, on mount recto. 1940; printed 1980s
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Manuel álvarez bravo (1902-2002)
Paisaje Inventado [Invented Landscape].
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅜x9¼ inches (18.7x23.5 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Bravo’s signature and notation México, in pencil, and the title, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1972; printed 1980s
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
WPA-era Photography
Lewis w. hine (1874-1940)
Oyster Shuckers.
Silver print, the image measuring 4⅝x7 inches (11.7x17.8 cm.), with Hine’s numeric notation 2061, twice, in pencil, on verso. 1911
Estimate
$1,800 – $2,200
Lewis w. hine (1874-1940)
A group of 9 images depicting young workers across America during the Second Industrial Revolution.
Silver prints, the images measuring 3x4 to 4¾x6¾ inches (7.6x10.2 to 12.1x17.1 cm.), three of the sheets slightly larger, each with a numeric notation, four with a descriptive title, and one with Hine’s credit, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1908-14
A few of the youngsters employed in Clinton Mills, SC, 1908 * Some of the youngsters on day shift at Old Dominion Glass Co., Alexandria, VA, 1911 * Market scene, Boston, MA, 1909 * Bowling alley boys, New Haven, CT, 1909 * All these small boys, and more, work in Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, VT, 1909 * Operating a dangerous boring machine, Denison, TX, 1913 * Little Paula farming, c. 1910 * A young table boy in Newsome’s ice cream parlor, Birmingham, AL, 1914 * Max Rosenthal, 8 yrs. old, no badge, Washington, D.C., 1912
From a Private Miami Collection.
Estimate
$12,000 – $18,000
Lewis w. hine (1874-1940)
Three newsboys.
Silver print, the image measuring 4½x6½ inches (11.4x6.5 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the notation “Child Labor provisions of Newspaper Code still pending” and a numeric notation, in pencil, and another numeric notation, in ink, on verso. Circa 1910
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Lewis w. hine (1874-1940)
Noon hour, Singer Mfg. Co. Boys work there, girls carry lunch. South Bend, Indiana.
Silver print, the image measuring 4¾x6⅝ inches (12.1x16.8 cm.), with Hine’s Hine Photo Company Yonkers, NY, Set. No., and N hand stamps, and a numeric notation, in pencil, on verso. 1908
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Lewis w. hine (1874-1940)
Empire State Building.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7½ inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Hine’s Hastings-on-Hudson hand stamp, an N.E.A. hand stamp (with the date 1930), and a caption, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1930
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Margaret bourke-white (1904-1971)
Group of 4 vintage prints from Letchworth Village.
Warm-toned silver prints with the applied thin black border, the images measuring 9¼x13¼ inches (23.5x33.6 cm.), and the reverse, and 8x13 inches (20.3x33 cm.), two of the mounts 14x18 inches (35.5x45.7 cm.), and two slightly smaller, each with Bourke-White’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and her hand stamp and a numeric notation, in pencil, on mount verso. 1932
Located in the hamlet of Thiells, Rockland County, NY, Letchworth Village was established in 1911 as an institution to care for individuals with developmental disabilities, and remained open until 1996. In 1932, Bourke-White was commissioned by board member Mary Harriman to document the village and its residents.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Walker evans (1903-1975)
Barber shop, New Orleans.
Silver print, the image measuring 9⅝x7⅝ inches (24.4x19.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger. 1935; printed 1960s
Acquired from Ives-Sillman Inc., New Haven, Connecticut, in 1977.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Walker evans (1903-1975)
Church Organ, Rural Alabama.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅝x9⅝ inches (19.4x24.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the Lunn Archive hand stamp with the notations III 371, in pencil, and the title, date, and printing notations, also in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1936; printed 1960s
Acquired directly from the Photographer; to a Private Collector; by descent to Present Owner.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Walker evans (1903-1975)
Houses and Cemetery, Birmingham, Alabama.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9⅝ inches (19.1x24.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the Lunn Archive hand stamp with the notations III 227, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1936
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Walker evans (1903-1975)
Doorway, 204 West 13th Street, New York City * Minstrel Poster, Alabama * Stamped Tin Relic, New York City.
Silver prints, the images measuring 8x10¼ to 15½x11¾ inches (20.3x26 to 39.4x29.8 cm.), the mounts 19¾x14¾ inches (50.2x37.5 cm.), each with Evans’ signature and edition notation out of 75, in pencil, on mount recto. 1931, 1936, 1930; printed 1974
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Dorothea lange (1895-1965)
Oklahoma Dust Bowl Refugees, San Fernando, California.
Silver print, the image measuring 6x8½ inches (15.2x21.6 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with an Acme Newspictures hand stamp, an N.E.A. hand stamp (with the date 9-8-36), and a mimeographed label, also with a date, on verso. 1935
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Dorothea lange (1895-1965)
String of Five Housecars.
Silver print, the image measuring 7x9¼ inches (17.8x23.5 cm.), with Lange’s Resettlement Administration hand stamp (obscured), an N.E.A. hand stamp (with the date 10-29-36), the title and RA number, in pencil, and a typed caption label, on verso. 1936
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Dorothea lange (1895-1965)
Boy, fourteen, American River Camp, California.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅜x6⅝ inches (18.7x16.8 cm.), the sheet 9x7 inches (22.9x17.8 cm.), with an Acme Newspictures hand stamp, an N.E.A. hand stamp (with the date 10-11-37), a numeric notation, in pencil, and a typewritten caption, on verso. 1936
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Dorothea lange (1895-1965)
Drought refugees stopped along highway.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅝x7 inches (19.4x17.8 cm.), the sheet 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), with the Library of Congress hand stamp and Lange’s credit, title, date, and numeric notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1937; printed circa 1970
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Dorothea lange (1895-1965)
Drought Refugee, California.
Silver print, the image measuring 13½x10½ inches (34.3x26.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the Library of Congress hand stamp and their numeric notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1937; printed 1960s
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Dorothea lange (1895-1965)
Woman of the High Plains, Texas Panhandle.
Silver print, the image measuring 12⅜x10 inches (31.4x5.4 cm.), flush mounted. 1938; printed circa 1960
Gifted by Lange to Zoe Brown, who studied with Lange (and Minor White) at the California School of Fine Arts from 1951-53. She subsequently worked as a darkroom assistant to Lange and Wayne Miller into the 1960s.
Estimate
$15,000 – $25,000
Alfred eisenstaedt (1898-1995)
Scene from the March of Time movie “The Ramparts We Watch.”
Silver print, the image measuring 16x12¼ inches (40.6x31.1 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Eisenstaedt’s signature and edition notation 7/250, in ink, on recto, and his credit, title, dates, and Time Life notations and copyright, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1937; printed 1990
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Russell lee (1903-1986)
Saturday night in a saloon, Craigville, Minnesota * Farm Family after evening meal, Pie Town, New Mexico * Women seated outside
Together, 3 silver prints, the images measuring 9¾x13⅛ inches (24.8x33.3 cm.), and slightly smaller, the sheets 11x14 inches (27.9x39.6 cm.), each with Lee’s signature, in pencil or ink, and one with Lee’s credit hand stamp, on verso. 1937; printed circa 1980
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Gjon mili (1904-1984)
Jitter for Joy (Lindy Hop, Willa Mae Ricker and Leon James).
Silver print, the image measuring 13½x10½ inches (34.3x26.7 cm.), with the title, date, and additional notations, in pencil, in unknown hands, on verso. 1943
With a photocopied sheet apparently originally typed by Mili, in which he provides an extended caption and remembrance of shooting this incredibly buoyant and joyful image, which was featured on the cover of Life magazine.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Marion post wolcott (1910-1990)
Negroes jitter bugging on Saturday evening, in town near plantation, near Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta.
Silver print, the image measuring 10½x13⅜ inches (26.7x34 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Wolcott’s signature, title, negative date, and notation “an original vintage FSA print,” in pencil, on verso. 1939
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Marion post wolcott (1910-1990)
Hot lunches for children of agricultural workers in day nursery of Okeechobee Migratory Labor Camp, Belle Glade, Fla.
Silver print, the image measuring 8⅞x12 inches (22.5x30.5 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Wolcott’s signature, title, and negative date, in pencil, on verso. 1941; printed 1980s
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
John gutmann (1905-1998)
Alfalfa Bill.
Silver print, the image measuring 12½x10 inches (31.8x25.4 cm.), with Gutmann’s signature and the title, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. Late 1930s
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Horace bristol (1908-1997)
Tunnel entrance with lamp.
Silver print, the image measuring 10¼x9 inches (26x22.9 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Bristol’s signature and numeric notations, in pencil, on verso, and his signature and print date, in pencil, on the overmat. 1933; printed 1980s
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Ralph steiner (1899-1986)
Saratoga Coal Company.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Steiner’s signature and dates, in ink, on verso. 1929; printed 1977
Estimate
$1,400 – $1,800
Ralph steiner (1899-1986)
Self-portrait.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7½ inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Steiner’s signature and dates, in ink, on verso. 1929; printed 1978
Estimate
$1,400 – $1,800
Ralph steiner (1899-1986)
Posters.
Silver print, the image measuring 4⅝x3⅝ inches (11.7x9.2 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Steiner’s signature, dates, and inscription, in ink, on verso. 1924; printed 1980
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
Ralph steiner (1899-1986)
American Rural Baroque.
Toned silver print, the image measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the mount 14x17 inches (35.6x43.2 cm.), with Steiner’s signature, title, date, and printing notation, in pencil, on mount verso. 1930; printed 1966
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Doris ulmann (1882-1934)
Portrait of Glenway Wescott, the American poet, novelist, and essayist.
Silver print, the image measuring 8x6 inches (20.3x15.2 cm.), the mount 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Ulmann’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto. Circa 1930s
Ex-collection Monroe Wheeler, who was head of publications at the Museum of Modern Art from 1930-60s.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Margaret bourke-white (1904-1971)
New Orleans.
Warm-toned silver print, the image measuring 6⅛x8⅞ inches (15.5x22.5 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Bourke-White’s A Margaret Bourke-White Photograph hand stamp, an O’Jornal hand stamp, and Bourke-White’s credit, caption, and negative date, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1937
From an East Coast Collection.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Clarence john laughlin (1905-1985)
The Magnificent Spiral.
Silver print, the image measuring 9⅝x7⅛ inches (24.4x18.1 cm.), the mount slightly larger, with Laughlin’s Historic New Orleans Collection hand stamp, various numeric notations, including the date 4/19/46, in ink, and the title, in pencil, in another hand, on mount verso. 1939
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Clarence john laughlin (1905-1985)
The Circus Venus.
Silver print, the image measuring 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), the mount 14x17 inches (35.6x43.2 cm.), with Laughlin’s signature, title, and date, in white pencil, on mount recto. 1964
Gifted by Laughlin to a Private Collector, who was also a personal friend.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Brett weston (1911-1993)
Tool Shed.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅝x9½ inches (19.4x24.1 cm.), the mount 14x18 inches (35.6x45.7 cm.), with Weston’s signature and date, in pencil, on mount recto. 1940
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Wright morris (1910-1998)
Farmhouse in winter, Nebraska.
Silver print, the image measuring 10½x13½ inches (26.7x34.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Morris’ signature, in pencil, and the notation “WM 68,” also in pencil, on verso. 1941; printed circa 1970
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Wright morris (1910-1998)
Drawer with Silverware.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9⅜ inches (19.1x23.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Morris’ signature, in pencil, on verso. 1947; printed 1970s
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
August sander (1876-1964)/gunther sander
Handlanger [Bricklayer].
Silver print, the image measuring 8⅜x5¾ inches (21.3x14.6 cm.), with Gunther Sander's August Sander Lichtbildner hand stamp on verso. 1928; printed 1970s
Estimate
$15,000 – $25,000
August sander (1876-1964)/gerd sander
Secretary at West German Radio, Cologne.
Silver print, the image measuring 10⅛x6¾ inches (25.7x17.1 cm.), the mount 17¼x13⅜ inches (43.8x34 cm.), with the Aug. Sander blind stamp on print recto; Gerd Sander’s signature and print date, in pencil, the August Sander Archive hand stamp with the print date and edition notation 11/12, in ink, and printing notations again, in pencil, on print verso; and the Archive hand stamp again and the Sander label, on mount verso. 1931; printed 1990
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Margaret bourke-white (1904-1971)
Soviet Serenade (Accordion Player).
Warm-toned silver print with the applied thin black border, the image measuring 13¼x9¼ inches (33.7x23.5 cm.), the mount 21x14 inches (53.3x35.6 cm.), with Bourke-White’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and her credit hand stamp and a typed alternate title and caption label, on mount verso. 1931
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
(aleksandr rodchenko) (1891-1956)
Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Silver print, the image measuring 11⅜x5⅛ inches (28.9x13 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with a Rodchenko/Stepanova hand stamp and notations and date, in pencil, on verso. 1924; printed 1960s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
(boris ignatovich) (1899-1976)
At the Hermitage.
Silver print, the image measuring 13x19½ inches (33x49.5 cm.), the sheet 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Ignatovich's hand stamp and his credit, title, date, and his wife Klavdia Ignatvoich's signature, all in her hand, in pencil, on verso. 1930; printed 1990s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Margaret bourke-white (1904-1971)
Bata Factory, Zlin, Moravia.
Silver print, the image measuring 7¼x9½ inches (18.4x24.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the title, in pencil, and her credit hand stamp, on verso. 1938
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Roman vishniac (1897-1990)
Cracow, A Jewish Street * Munkatch. Baruch Rabinovitch examining the Yeshiva Bahurim * Munkatch. The Beltser Rov Aaron and Baruch Rabinovitch of the Spira dynasty.
Together, 3 silver prints, two images measuring 10⅛x13⅛ inches (25.7x33.3 cm.) and one measuring 10⅝x11½ inches (27x29.2 cm.), the mounts 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), each with Vishniac’s signature, title, and two with dates, in ink, on mount recto. 1937, one circa 1938; printed 1970s
Acquired from the photographer; to a Private Midwest Collector.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Berenice abbott (1898-1991)
A portfolio entitled Faces of the 20s.
Complete with 12 of Abbott's early portraits. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 13½x10½ inches (34.3x26.7 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the mounts 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), each with Abbott's block-lettered signature and edition notation 8/60, in pencil, on mount recto, and a portfolio hand stamp on mount verso. Folio-sized cloth clamshell case; with the printed title page and plate list; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 60. New York: Parasol Press, printed 1981
James Joyce, 1928* Princess Eugène Murat, 1929 * Buddy Gilmore, circa 1926 * Jean Cocteau's Hands, 1927 * Eugène Atget, 1927 * Edna St. Vincent Millay, circa 1929 * André Gide, 1928 * Janet Flanner, 1927 * Mrs. Raymond Massey, 1926 * Solita Solano, 1927 * Princess Marthe Bibesco, 1927 * Jean Cocteau, 1927.
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
George platt lynes (1907-1955)
A group of 9 portraits of performers, writers, scholars, and artists.
Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 9x7¾ inches (22.9x19.7 cm.) or slightly smaller, and the reverse, two on original mounts measuring 11x14 inch (27.9x35.6 cm.), each with Lynes’ credit hand stamp and the subject’s name, in ink or pencil, on verso or mount recto/verso. 1930s-40s
Rex Harrison * Immanuel Velikovsky * Gaston Lachaise * Janet Flanner * Sylvia Sidney * Sir Osbert Sitwell * Carrie Finnell * Lotte Lehmann * Yurek Shabelev
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Carl van vechten (1880-1964)
Gertrude Stein.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7¼ inches (24.1x18.4 cm.), with Van Vechten’s embossed blind stamp, on recto, and his copyright hand stamp with the location, date, and negative number, in ink, on verso. 1935
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Lotte jacobi (1896-1990)
A selection of 8 real photo post cards.
Silver prints on carte-postale paper, the images measuring 4¼x3 inches (10.8x7.6 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets 5½x3½ inches (14x8.9 cm.), 7 with Jacobi's signature, in pencil, and one with her title, in ink, on recto, and one with a signature, lengthy inscription, and date, on verso. 1928-1942; printed 1979
Lotte Lenya, actress, Berlin, 1930 * Albert Einstein in a leather jacket, 1938 * Alfred Stieglitz,1940 * Claire Bauroff, Berlin, 1928 * Peter Lorre, Berlin, 1942 * Käthe Kollwitz, 1931 * Grock, c. 1930s * Karl Valentine and Liesl Karlstadt, 1928
Gifted by Lotte Jacobi to the Present Owner.
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
H. richardson cremer (active 1920s-40s)
Margaret Bourke-White with camera.
Silver print, the image measuring 6¼x3¾ inches (15.9x9.5 cm.), with the subject’s name, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1935
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Edward steichen (1879-1973)
Charlie Chaplin (seated).
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7½ inches (24.1x17.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Steichen’s hand stamp, a “Printed from the original negative” hand stamp, and the title, negative number, negative date, and other notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1931; printed 1960s
From a New York City Collector.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Horst p. horst (1906-1999)
Coco Chanel, Paris.
Silver print, the image measuring 9¼x9 inches (23.5x22.9 cm.), the sheet 14x10¾ inches (35.6x27.3 cm.), with Horst’s signature, in pencil, an edition notation 2/10, also in pencil, in an unknown hand, his hand stamp, and the Staley-Wise hand stamp, on verso. 1937; printed 1980s
From a New York City Collector.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Barbara morgan (1900-1992)
Martha Graham–Letter to the World (swirl).
Silver print, the image measuring 7¼x9⅝ inches (18.4x24.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, the mount 9x11 inches (22.9x7.9 cm.), with Morgan’s signature and title, in ink, and numerous additional notations and crop marks, in pencil and ink, on mount recto, and her signature, title, dates, copyright, and extensive notations, in ink, and her copyright and credit hand stamp, on mount verso. 1940; printed circa 1972
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
Barbara morgan (1900-1992)
Martha Graham–War Theme.
Silver print, the image measuring 15x18½ inches (38.1x47 cm.), the mount 22x27 inches (55.9x68.6 cm.), with Morgan’s signature, title, and negative date, in pencil, on mount recto, and her signature, title, and dates, in ink, and her copyright hand stamp, on mount verso; with a Reader’s Digest Collection label and inventory label, on frame verso. 1941; printed 1980
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Barbara morgan (1900-1992)
Vision of Penitente.
Silver print, the image measuring 10x12⅝ inches (25.4x32.1 cm.), the mount 11x12⅝ inches (27.9x32.1 cm.), with Morgan’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto. 1941
WITH–Barbara Morgan. Martha Graham. Illustrated with reproductions of Morgan’s photographs of 16 iconic performances by the phenomenal Martha Graham. 4to, tan cloth boards. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY MORGAN. New York: Duel, Sloan and Pearce, (1941)
This print and the book were gifted by Morgan to Marshall Brooks who assisted with the photo project (and who is thanked on the acknowledgements page).
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
(pearl primus)
A series of 9 photographs of Pearl Primus performing by the photographers Barbara Morgan, Gjon Mili, and Gerda Peterich.
A striking group of promotional photographs by well-known photographers used to promote the famous dancer. The images show Primus onstage performing her most well-known choreography including Folk Dance, African Ceremonial, and Speak to Me of Rivers. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 9½x7¼ inches (24.1x18.4 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, each with a Pearl Primus hand stamp, and 5 with an Austin Wilder, Artist Management, NYC hand stamp, on verso. 1940s
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
George hurrell (1904-1992)
Hurrell III: A Portfolio with 10 Photographs.
Silver prints, the images measuring 19x15½ inches (48.2x39.4 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, with Hurrell's signature and edition notation 198/250, in ink, on recto. Folio-sized burgundy cloth clamshell box; with the 5 printed sheets, comprising: An Introduction by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., A Certificate of Authenticity, Technical Data (A List of Subjects), Testimonials (What "Those Beautiful People" Feel about George Hurrell), and Hurrell's printed acknowledgment that the photographs conform to his exacting aesthetic standards; contents loose as issued. Los Angeles: Creative Art Images, Inc., 1932-44; printed 1980
Anna May Wong, 1938 * John Barrymore, 1933 * Charles Boyer, 1938 * James Cagney, 1938 * Joan Crawford, 1932 * Jascha Heifetz, 1937 * Veronica Lake, 1941 * Gilbert Roland, 1939 * Ann Sheridan, 1939 * Gene Tierney, 1944
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Sid avery (1918-2002)
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
Silver print, the image measuring 10½x13⅜ inches (26.7x34 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Avery’s signature and negative date, in pencil, and his copyright hand stamp, on verso; and his signature and date again, in pencil, on the overmat. 1952; printed 1960s
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Sid avery (1918-2002)
Paul Newman and Joann Woodward.
Silver print, the image measuring 10¼x11 inches (26x27.9 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Avery’s signature and negative date, in pencil, and his copyright hand stamp, on verso; and his signature and date again, in pencil, on the overmat. 1958; printed 1960s
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Allan grant (1919-2008)
Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly backstage at the 28th Annual Academy Awards, Hollywood, CA.
Silver print, the image measuring 13x9⅞ inches (33x25 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Grant’s signature and print date, in pencil, on recto, and his signature and print date again, in pencil, and his Life Photo, Time Inc., and copyright hand stamps, on verso. 1956; printed 1976
From a New York City Collector.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Sanford roth (1906-1962)
A group of four photographs of Albert Einstein in Princeton, New Jersey.
Silver prints, three images measuring approximately 13½x10½ inches (34.3x36.7 cm.), one measuring 7⅞x9¾ inches (20x24.8 cm.), two sheets slightly larger, and the smallest image with Roth’s credit hand stamp, on verso. Circa 1955
From Sanford & Beulah Roth; to Francesca Robinson Sanchez, granddaughter of the actor Edward G. Robinson; to a Private Collection, Christie's London (December 13, 2006, Lot 128).
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Elli marcus (1899-1977)/george tice (1938- )
Contact strip with four frames depicting Alfred Stieglitz’s hair cut and Georgia O’Keeffe.
Silver print, the image measuring overall 9⅝x2¼ inches (24.4x5.7 cm.), the sheet 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), with Marcus’ signature and the notation “printed by George Tice from the negative by Elli Marcus,” in pencil, on verso. 1940s; printed 1970s
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Brett weston (1911-1993)
Portfolio entitled Portraits of My Father.
With 8 (of 10) photographs. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 9½x7½ inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), the mounts 15x13¼ inches (38.1x33.7 cm.), each with Weston’s signature and negative date, in pencil, on mount recto, and a portfolio hand stamp with the print number, in pencil, on mount verso. Folio-sized black-stamped cloth folding case; the colophon with the edition size, printed plate list, and an introduction by Ansel Adams. FROM AN EDITION OF 100. 1929-42; printed 1976
Carmel, 1929 * Carmel Highlands, 1938 * Carmel, 1933 * Carmel Highlands, 1938 * Carmel Highlands, 1939 * Carmel Highlands, 1940 * Carmel, 1932 * Carmel Highlands, 1942
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Barbara morgan (1900-1992)
Charles Sheeler and his Favorite Beech Tree.
Silver print, the image measuring 13¼x10⅛ inches (33.7x25.7 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Morgan’s signature, title, and negative date, in pencil, on mount recto, and her signature, title, negative date, and initialed print date, in ink, and her copyright hand stamp, on mount verso. 1945; printed 1975
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Florence homolka (1911-1962)
Portrait of Brâncusi * Corner of Brâncusi’s studio * Inside Brâncusi’s studio.
Silver prints, two images measuring 13½x9 inches (34.3x22.9 cm.), and the reverse, and one image measuring 13½x10½ inches (34.3x26.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, each with Homolka's credit hand stamp and one with a Museum of Modern Art, Paris label, on verso. Circa 1948
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
(constantin brâncusi)
A group of four photographs of the sculptures “Caryatid”, “The Sorceress”, “Wisdom”, and “The Little French Girl (the First Step III)”.
Silver prints, the images measuring 9x2¾ to 9⅜x4 inches (22.9x7 to 23.8x10.2 cm.), two sheets slightly larger, each with a Guggenheim Museum exhibition label (three labels are cropped and display incomplete information) and one complete with Brâncusi’s credit, the title of the work, the date of the work, and additional exhibition information, on verso. 1955
The photographs depict installation views of four of Brâncusi’s sculptures for the 1955 exhibition of his work at the Guggenheim. The exhibition, which opened on October 26, 1955, was the first major museum exhibition of Brâncusi’s work.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Weegee [arthur fellig] (1899-1968)
Salvador Dalí.
Ferrotyped silver print, the image measuring 11⅞x8⅞ inches (30.2x22.5 cm.), the sheet 14x11¼ inches (35.6x28.6 cm.), with Weegee’s Credit Photo by Weegee and Photo-Representatives hand stamps, and the subject’s name, in ink, on verso. Circa 1950
From an East Coast Collection.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Arnold newman (1918-2006)
Ansel Adams.
Silver print, the image measuring 12⅞x10 inches (32.7x25.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Newman’s signature, title, and negative date, in pencil, on recto, and his copyright hand stamp and printing notations, in pencil, on verso. 1976
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Arnold newman (1918-2006)
W. Eugene Smith.
Silver print, the image measuring 7¾x11⅝ inches (19.7x29.5 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Newman’s signature and title, in pencil, on recto, and his copyright hand stamp and printing notations, in pencil, on verso. 1977
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Lucien clergue (1934-2014)
Pool study.
Unique collage with 9 SX-70 Polaroids, overall measuring 11x10 inches (27.9x25.4 cm.), the mount 18½x17 inches (47x43.2 cm.), with a John F. Hennessy Collection label with an inventory number, in ink, on mount verso. Circa 1980
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
The Human Form
František drtikol (1883-1961)
Modernist nude study.
Bromoil transfer print, the image measuring 7x9⅜ inches (17.8x23.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, the period mount 8¾x13⅛ inches (22.2x33.3 cm.), with Drtikol’s blind stamp on print recto. Circa 1930
From the Photographer's Estate; to a California book dealer; acquired by a Private Collector.
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
E.j. bellocq (1873-1949)/lee friedlander (1934- )
Storyville portrait.
Gold-toned printing-out paper print, the image measuring 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), the mount 12x9¼ inches (30.5x23.5 cm.), with Friedlander’s hand stamp and the notation Bellocq #15, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on mount verso. 1911-13; printed 1970s
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
André kertész (1894-1985)
Distortion #86.
Silver print, the image measuring 8⅝x7¾ inches (21.9x19.7 cm.), the sheet 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), with Kertész’s title, and location Paris, in pencil, on verso. 1929; printed circa 1970
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
George platt lynes (1907-1955)
Ruth Ford/Hummingbird, a surreal montage from the Mythology series.
Silver print, the image measuring 8¾x7 inches (22.2x17.8 cm.), the mount 9¾x7¼ inches (24.8x18.4 cm.), with Lynes’ credit and the subject’s name, in ink, and the date and notation “taken in his studio,” in pencil, on mount verso. 1936
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Edward weston (1886-1958)/cole weston (1919-2003)
Nude (Tina Modotti on the Azotea).
Silver print, the image measuring 7x9½ inches (17.8x24.1 cm.), the mount 13¼x15 inches (33.7x38.1 cm.), with Cole Weston’s signature, in ink, and his title, negative date, negative number 67N, and “negative by” and “print by” notations, in pencil, and an Edward Weston signature hand stamp, on mount verso. 1923; printed circa 1964
Originally purchased in 1964 by a Private California Collector.
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Edward weston (1886-1958)/cole weston (1919-2003)
Nude (Dancer’s Knees).
Silver print, the image measuring 7¼x8¼ inches (18.4x21 cm.), the mount 13¼x15 inches (33.7x38.1 cm.), with the Negative by Edward Weston hand stamp with Cole Weston’s signature, in pencil, and the title, negative date, and negative notation, also in pencil, and a Student Print hand stamp, on mount verso. 1927; printed circa 1970
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Edward weston (1886-1958)/cole weston (1919-2003)
Nude (Charis).
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅜x9⅜ inches (18.7x23.8 cm.), the mount 14x16 inches (35.6x40.6 cm.), with the Negative by Edward Weston hand stamp with Cole Weston’s signature, in pencil, and the title, negative date, and negative number, also in pencil, on mount verso. 1936; printed 1970s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Ruth bernhard (1905-2006)
Triangles.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7½ inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Bernhard’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and her signature, title, and negative date, and her hand stamp, on mount verso. 1946; printed 1970s
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Ruth bernhard (1905-2006)
Sand Dune.
Silver print, the image measuring 6⅞x13⅝ inches (17.5x34.6 cm.), the mount 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Bernhard’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and her signature, title, and negative date, in pencil, and her copyright hand stamp, on mount verso. 1967; printed 1990s
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Ruth bernhard (1905-2006)
Symbiosis.
Silver print, the image measuring 13½x8 inches (34.3x20.3 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Bernhard’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and her signature, title, and date, in pencil, on mount verso. 1970
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Ruth bernhard (1905-2006)
Within.
Silver print, the image measuring 13¼x9⅝ inches (33.6x24.4 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (20.8x40.6 cm.), with Bernhard’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and her signature, in pencil, and the title and date, also in pencil, in an unknown hand, and her copyright hand stamp, on mount verso. 1969
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Brett weston (1911-1993)
Underwater nude.
Silver print, the image measuring 13¼x10¾ inches (33.7x27.3 cm.), the mount 18x15 inches (45.7x38.1 cm.), with Weston’s signature and edition notation 5/50, in pencil, on mount recto. 1978
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Lucien clergue (1934-2014)
Les Geàntes, Camargue * Nu de la Mer.
Together, 2 silver prints, the images measuring approximately 14x20½ inches (35.6x52.1 cm.), the sheets 16x22½ inches (40.6x57.2 cm.), each with Clergue’s signature, in ink, on recto. 1978 and 1980
Acquired from Sotheby's in 1987; to a Private Midwest Collector.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
George platt lynes (1907-1955)
Paul Cadmus.
Silver print, the image measuring 7¼x3 inches (18.4x7.6 cm.), with Lynes' credit and the subject's name, in ink, and the Collection of Jon Anderson and Collection of Paul Cadmus hand stamps, on verso. Circa 1948
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
George platt lynes (1907-1955)
Jack Fonton.
Silver print, the image measuring 9¼x7½ inches (23.5x19.1 cm.), with Lynes' 145 East 52 Street hand stamp and the subject's name, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1950
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
George platt lynes (1907-1955)
Monroe Wheeler.
Silver print, the image measuring 9x7½ inches (22.7x19.1 cm.), with Lynes’ 229 East 47 Street hand stamp, on verso. Circa 1940s
Ex-collection Monroe Wheeler, who was head of publications at the Museum of Modern Art from 1930-60s.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
George platt lynes (1907-1955)
Male nude study.
Silver print, the image measuring 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), with a numeric notation, in pencil, on verso. 1940s
Ex-collection Monroe Wheeler, who was head of publications at the Museum of Modern Art from 1930-60s.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Pajama (paul cadmus, jared french, and margaret french)
Margaret French, Jared French, Nantucket, by Paul Cadmus.
Silver print, the image measuring 6½x4⅜ inches (16.5x11.1 cm.), with the caption and notations, in pencil, on verso. 1940s
Estimate
$1,400 – $1,800
Pajama (paul cadmus, jared french, and margaret french)
John B.
Silver print, the image measuring 4⅝x6¾ inches (11.7x17.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the sitter’s name, in ink, and a Collection of Jon Anderson hand stamp, on verso. 1940s
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Carl van vechten (1880-1964)
Geoffrey Holder.
Silver print, the image measuring 9⅞x8 inches (25.1x20.3 cm.), with Van Vechten’s blind stamp on recto, and his copyright hand stamp, on verso. 1954
Holder was a Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, musician, and artist. He was a principal dancer for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet before his film career began in 1957 with an appearance in “Carib Gold.” In 1973, he played the villainous Baron Samedi in the Bond film “Live and Let Die.”
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Horst p. horst (1906-1999)
Carl Erickson Drawing Gertrude Stein and Horst, Paris.
Silver print, the image measuring 10x9¾ inches (25.4x24.8 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Horst’s signature, in pencil, an edition notation 6/50, also in pencil, in an unknown hand, his hand stamp, and the Staley-Wise hand stamp, on verso. 1946; printed 1980s
From a New York City Collector.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
George hoyningen-huene (1900-1968)/horst p. horst (1906-1999)
Divers (Horst and Model).
Silver print, the image measuring 9⅞x7½ inches (25.1x19.1 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with the notation “from the collection of Horst,” in pencil, in Horst’s hand, the Hoyningen-Huene Horst copyright hand stamp, and a Staley-Wise hand stamp, on verso. 1930; printed 1980s
From a New York City Collector.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
George hoyningen-huene (1900-1968)/horst p. horst (1906-1999)
Horst Torso.
Silver print, the image measuring 7¾x9⅝ inches (19.7x24.4 cm.), the sheet 10¾x13¾ inches (27.3x34.9 cm.), with the notation “from the collection of Horst,” in pencil, in Horst’s hand, the Hoyningen-Huene Horst copyright hand stamp, and a Staley-Wise hand stamp, on verso. 1931; printed 1980s
From a New York City Collector.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Herb ritts (1952-2002)
Male Nude - Horizontal.
Silver print, the image measuring 17¾x22¾ inches (45.1x57.8 cm.), the sheet 19⅞x23¾ inches (50.5x60.3 cm.), with Ritts’ signature, title, date, edition notation A/P, and a signed and dated inscription, on verso. 1987
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Jack smith (1932-1989)
A composite of four images from The Beautiful Book.
Silver print, the overall image measuring 4½ inches (11.4 cm.) square. Circa 1962
From Piero Heliczer, an Italian-American poet publisher, actor, and filmmaker; to Peter Gidal, a writer and filmmaker, in 1973.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Landscapes
Edward weston (1886-1958)/cole weston (1919-2003)
Pepper #30.
Silver print, the image measuring 9¼x7⅜ inches (23.5x18.7 cm.), the mount 17x14 inches (43.2x35.6 cm.), with the Negative by Edward Weston hand stamp with Cole Weston's signature, and the title, negative date, and negative number, in pencil, on mount verso. 1930; printed 1970s
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Edward weston (1886-1958)/cole weston (1919-2003)
Rocks and Pebbles.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the mount 13¼x15 inches (33.7x38.1 cm.), with the Negative by Edward Weston hand stamp with Cole Weston’s signature, and the title, negative date, and negative number, in pencil, on mount verso. 1948; printed 1970s
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Edward weston (1886-1958)/cole weston (1919-2003)
China Cove, Point Lobos.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7½ inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), the mount 15x13 inches (38.1x33 cm.), with the Negative by Edward Weston hand stamp with Cole Weston’s signature, in pencil, and the title, date 1946, and negative number, also in pencil, on mount verso. 1940; printed 1970s
From an East Coast Collection.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Ansel adams (1902-1984)
Mount Clarence King.
Parmelian print, the image measuring 8x6 inches (20.3x15.2 cm.), the sheet 11¾x9¾ inches (29.8x24.8 cm.), with Adams’ signature, in pencil, and the letterpress title, on recto. Circa 1924; printed 1927
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Ansel adams (1902-1984)
Oak Tree, Autumn, Yosemite Valley, CA.
Silver print, the image measuring 9⅛x6½ inches (23.2x16.5 cm.), with white editorial paint at the top and bottom, on recto, and a printed caption clipping with a 1937 date stamp and notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. Circa 1935
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Ansel adams (1902-1984)
Young Oaks in Snow, Winter, Yosemite National Park.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the mount 13¼x15¼ inches (33.7x38.7 cm.), with Adams’ signature, in ink, on mount recto, and the Special Edition Photographs of Yosemite hand stamp with the title, print number 53, and S.E.Y. number 16, in ink, on mount verso. 1938; printed 1960s
From a Private New York Collection.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Ansel adams (1904-1984)
A sealed Hills Brothers coffee can filled with the original coffee, with a wraparound image of Adams’ Winter Morning, Yosemite Valley and the original bellyband.
This exceptionally rare can still filled with coffee, and with the rare original red and yellow “belly band” specifying the grind and date, and advertising a Kodak Instamatic II camera on special offer for only $4.75. Tin, 7 inches high and 6¼ in diameter (17.8 and 15.9 cm.), with the printed Hills Brothers and Adams credit, and Adams’ title and date; with the plastic Hills Bros lid. 1969
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Ansel adams.
Sierra Nevada, The John Muir Trail.
New York & Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (2006)
Illustrated with 50 beautiful reproductions from tritone separations made by Thomas Palmer; each tipped by hand onto English mouldmade Somerset paper. Folio, cloth; matching slipcase; the book is apparently in the original shrinkwrap; in the original shipping box, sealed. LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF 500 COPIES.
Estimate
$500 – $750
Wilson a. “snowflake” bentley (1865-1931)
A group of 4 snow crystals.
Silver prints, the images measuring 3 inches (7.6 cm.) in diameter, the sheets 4x3 inches (10.2x7.6 cm.), two with numeric notations, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1910
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Josef sudek (1896-1976)
Still life of apple.
Silver print, the image measuring 2⅞ inches (7.3 cm.) square, the sheet 6¼x4¼ inches (15.9x10.8 cm.), with Sudek’s signature, print date, and inscription in Czech, in pencil, and various notations also in Czech, in ink, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1950; printed 1975
From a Private New York Collection.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Josef sudek (1896-1976)
Still life with glass and marble.
Silver print, the image measuring 11⅜x9 inches (28.9x22.9 cm.), the sheet 15⅝x11¾ inches (39.7x29.8 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with numeric notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1963-66
From a Private New York Collection.
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Josef sudek (1896-1976)
Pear still life.
Silver print, the image measuring 4⅜x6¼ inches (11.1x15.9 cm.), the sheet 7x9¼ inches (17.8x23.5 cm.), with Sudek's signature, date, and inscription, in Czech, on recto, and another inscription in Czech, in pencil, on verso. 1951; printed circa 1971
From an East Coast Collection.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Josef sudek (1896-1976)
Winter scene.
Silver print, the image measuring 11⅝x9⅜ inches (29.5x23.8 cm.), with Sudek’s signature, in ink, on recto, and his signature, in pencil, and credit hand stamp, on verso. 1960; printed 1970s
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Brett weston (1911-1993)
Rock abstraction.
Silver print, the image measuring 7¾x9¼ inches (19.7x23.5 cm.), the mount 13⅛x15 inches (33.3x38.1 cm.), with Weston’s signature and date, in pencil, on mount recto. 1971
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Brett weston.
Photographs from Five Decades.
Elegantly illustrated with reproductions of Weston’s photographs. Small folio, gilt-lettered tan cloth; in the matching slipcase; the slipcase is in the original shrinkwrap; in the original shipping box. DELUXE EDITION, ONE OF 400 SIGNED COPIES ISSUED WITH A PHOTOGRAPH.
New York: Aperture, 1980
Reeds, Oregon. Silver print, the image measuring 10¾x13¾ inches (27.3x34.9 cm.), with Weston’s signature and date, in pencil, on mount recto, and his copyright hand stamp on mount verso; housed in the original gilt-lettered boards folding jacket. 1975; printed 1980
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Brett weston (1911-1993)
Tropical plants.
Silver print, the image measuring 12¾x10⅜ inches (32.4x26.4 cm.), the mount 18x15 inches (45.7x38.1 cm.), with Weston’s signature and date, in pencil, on mount recto. 1982
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Minor white (1908-1976)
Lichen Covered Rocks, Henry Mountains, Utah * Henry Mountain, Utah.
Together, 2 silver prints, the images measuring 9⅝x7¼ and 9x7½ inches (24.4x18.4 and 22.9x19.1 cm.), the mounts 19x15 and 18x14½ inches (48.3x38.1 and 45.7x36.8 cm.), each with White’s signature and date, in pencil, on mount recto. 1964
Acquired from the Artist; to the Present Owner, circa 1964.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Minor white (1908-1976)
Butte, Utah.
Silver print, the image measuring 9¾x7⅝inches (24.8x19.4 cm.), the mount 19⅛x15⅛ inches (48.6x38.4 cm.), with White’s signature and date, in pencil, on mount recto. 1964
Acquired from the Artist; to the Present Owner, circa 1964.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Aaron siskind (1903-1991)
Rome 83 (Homage to F.K.).
Silver print, the image measuring 14½x14⅜ inches (36.8x36.5 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Siskind’s signature, title, and date, in ink, on recto, and the title and date, again, in pencil, on verso. 1973
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Aaron siskind (1903-1991)
Chicago 69 * Chicago 208.
Together, 2 silver prints, the images measuring 12½x9⅞ and 13⅜x10¼ inches (31.8x25.1 and 34x26 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, each with Siskind’s signature, title, and date, in pencil, on verso. 1960 and 1953; the first printed 1970s
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Wynn bullock (1902-1975)
Abstract nature study.
Silver print, the image measuring 8⅛x6⅞ inches (20.6x17.5 cm.), the mount 15x13¼ inches (38.1x33.7 cm.), with Bullock’s signature and date, in ink, on mount recto, and his title, date, and inventory number, in ink, and his credit and Edna J. Bullock Collection hand stamp, on mount verso. 1972
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
William clift (1944- )
A portfolio entitled New Mexico.
Complete with 8 lyrical images of the vast landscape. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 6½x8 to 9x13 inches (16.5x20.3 to 22.9x33 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 15x18 inches (38.1x45.7 cm.), each with Clift’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto. Folio-sized brown linen clamshell case with a paper title label and hand carved ivory clasp; with the edition number, in ink, on the colophon; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 100. 1972-74; printed 1975
Landscape, 1973 * Swing, 1973 * Corral, Hondo Valley, 1972 * Charis, Bandelier, 1974 * Apple Blossoms, Velarde, 1973 * Aspens, Hyde Park, 1972 * Peter Hurd Home, San Patricio, 1972 * Black Mesa, San Ildefonso, 1973
Gifted by William Clift to the Present Owner.
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Paul caponigro (1932- )
Death Valley.
Silver print, the image measuring 8⅝x12¾ inches (21.9x32.4 cm.), the mount 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Caponigro’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and his signature, title, and date, in pencil, on mount verso. 1975
From an East Coast Collection.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Paul caponigro (1932- )
Clouds Reflected in Water, Adirondack Mountains.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the mount 14x17 inches (35.6x43.2 cm.), with Caponigro’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto. 1958; printed 1960s
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Paul caponigro (1932- )
Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire, England.
Silver print, the image measuring 6⅞x9½ inches (17.5x24.1 cm.), the mount 14x17 inches (35.6x43.1 cm.), with Caponigro’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto. 1967; printed 1980s
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
George a. tice (1938- )
Oak Tree, Holmdel, New Jersey.
Toned silver print, the image measuring 7⅝x9½ inches (19.4x24.1 cm.), the mount 14x17 inches (35.6x43.2 cm.), with Tice’s block-lettered signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and his block-lettered title and negative date, in pencil, on mount verso. 1970
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Fan ho (1937-2016)
Unknown Journey.
Silver contact print, the image measuring 3¼x4⅝ inches (8.3x11.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Fan Ho's signature, title, and negative date, in ink, a hand stamp, and additional notations, in ink, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1957; printed 1980s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Marc riboud (1923-2016)
Huang Shan.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 17½x11½ inches (44.5x29.2 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Riboud’s signature, title, and negative date, in ink, on recto, and his 48 Rue Mr le Prince hand stamp on verso. 1983; printed 2000s
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Marc riboud (1923-2016)
China.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x14¼ inches (24.1x36.2 cm.), the sheet 12x16 inches (30.5x40.6 cm.), with Riboud’s signature, title, and negative date, in crayon, on recto, and his 48 Rue Monsieur le Prince hand stamp, on verso. 1957; printed 2000s
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
Elliott erwitt (1928- )
Mount Fuji, Japan.
Silver print, the image measuring 15½x10½ inches (39.4x26.7 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Erwitt’s signature, in ink, on recto, and his signature, title, and date, in pencil, on verso. 1977
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Kurt markus (1947- )
Namibia Africa, No. 2 * Namibia Africa, No. 5.
Silver prints, the images measuring 8⅛x6½ and 6¼x8⅛ inches (20.6x16.5 and 15.9x20.6 cm.), the sheets 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), each with Markus’ signature, in pencil, on recto, and his signature, again, title, and dates, in pencil, on verso. 2002; printed 2002 and 2005
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
20th-century European Photography
Eugène atget (1857-1927)/berenice abbott (1898-1991)
A group of four Parisian scenes by Atget.
Silver prints, the images measuring 7x9¼ inches (17.8x23.5 cm.) and the reverse, three with sheets slightly larger and one on a 13x10 inch (33x20.3 cm.) mount, each with Atget’s numeric notation in the negative, three with Abbott’s signature, in pencil, one with the Eugene Atget Photograph Berenice Abbott Collection hand stamp, and one with the Photograph Eugène Atget, Copyright Berenice Abbott hand stamp, on verso. 1905-26; printed 1940s-60s
Carmelites’ Market, Place Maubert, 1910-11 * Boutique, Marché aux Halles, Paris, 1925 * Fête de la Villette, 1926 * Boutique, circa 1905
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Eugène atget (1857-1927)/berenice abbott (1898-1991)
Fête du Trone (Le Géant Armand).
Silver print, the image measuring 6½x8¾ inches (16.5x22.2 cm.), with the Photograph by Eugene Atget Copyright: Berenice Abbott hand stamp, the Eugene Atget Photograph Collection Berenice Abbott hand stamp (twice), and Abbott’s Commerce St. hand stamp, on verso. 1925; printed circa 1950
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Jacques-henri lartigue (1894-1986)
Beach at Villerville.
Silver print, the image measuring 9⅛x13¾ inches (23.2x34.9 cm.), the sheet 12x16 inches (30.5x40.6 cm.), with Lartigue’s signature with the sunburst motif, in ink, and his blind stamped initials, on recto. 1902; printed 1980s
From a New York City Collector.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Jacques-henri lartigue (1894-1986)
Renee, Ciboure.
Silver print, the image measuring 12⅞x9⅝ inches (32.7x24.4 cm.), the sheet 16x12 inches (40.6x30.5 cm.), with Lartigue’s signature with the starburst motif, in ink, and his blind stamped initials, on recto. 1930; printed 1980s
From a New York City Collector.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Man ray (1890-1976)
Lampshade.
Silver print, the image measuring 9x5 inches (22.9x12.7 cm.), with Man Ray’s signature and notations, in pencil, and his title and dates, in ink, on verso. 1954
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Hannes beckmann (1909-1977)
Glasses.
Silver print, the image measuring 11¾x8¾ inches (29.2x22.2 cm.), the mount slightly larger, with Bechmann’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto. Circa 1935
Beckmann was a student at the Bauhaus from 1928-1932, where he studied under Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers. He left shortly before the school was closed by the Nazis, first to Vienna where he continued to study photography, and then to Prague where he worked as a photographer and for the resistance to occupation. In 1944 he was imprisoned in a concentration camp until the end of the war.
After the war, Beckmann moved to the United States where he became head of the photography department of the Guggenheim Museum and then an art professor at The Cooper Union and Dartmouth College. By the 1960s, Beckmann became known for his precise, geometric paintings, artwork he is still principally known for today. These paintings are characterized as being concerned with light and space, a theme of perception that could also be identified in the photograph offered here, a study of the distinct and elegant form of a pair of spectacles, here slightly abstracted as seen in layered light and shadow.
A photograph by Beckmann of a single pair of glasses was part of the Gilman Paper Company Collection acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was sold at auction in 2006 for $18,000.
From the Photograher to his wife, Elsa Naess; presumably to Paul Katz, New York, ex-director of photography, Marlborough Gallery; to dealer George Rinhart, North Carolina; to Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, in 1997; to a Private Collection.
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Lotte jacobi (1896-1990)
Portfolio III: Photogenics 1946-1955.
Complete with 10 beautifully printed abstract works from her experimental, cameraless series entitled “photogenics.” Palladium prints, the images measuring 9x7 to 9¾x13 inches (22.8x17.8 to 24.8x33 cm.), the sheets 10x12 to 12x15¼ inches (25.4x30.5 to 30.5x38.7 cm.), each with Jacobi’s signature, in pencil, on recto; individually matted with the debossed plate number on the overmat. Folio-sized gray cloth clamshell box, with the photographer’s name and the number 3 debossed on the cover and side; the printed title page, plate list, and colophon with Jacobi’s signature and the edition notation 7/25, in ink; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 25 COPIES WITH 5 APs. Deering, New Hampshire: Lotte Jacobi, 1946-55; printed 1981
Untitled (abstraction) * Landscape * Untitled (abstraction) * Praying Hands * Untitled (abstraction) * Birdform * Mask * Untitled (abstraction) * Sunset * Bird in Flight - Homage to Brancusi.
Acquired from Sotheby's, New York in 1987; to a Private Midwest Collector.
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
György kepes (1906-2001)
Hand and letterpress type.
Photogram silver print, the image measuring 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Kepes’ signature and date, in pencil, on verso. 1939
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
André kertész (1894-1985)
Quai de Bercy (Behind Notre Dame).
Silver print, the image measuring 10½x13⅜ inches (26.7x34 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Kertész’s signature and negative date, in pencil, his title, in ink, and his copyright hand stamp, on verso. 1925; printed 1970s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
André kertész (1894-1985)
Bistro, Paris.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Kertész’s signature, title, and negative date, in ink, and his credit hand stamp, on verso. 1927; printed 1970s
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
André kertész (1894-1985)
Broken Plate, Paris.
Silver print, the image measuring 7¾x9¾ inches (19.7x24.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Kertész’s signature, notation Paris, and negative date, in pencil, on verso. 1929; printed 1970s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
André kertész (1894-1985)
Canal.
Silver print, the image measuring 7¾x9¾ inches (19.7x24.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Kertész’s signature, title, negative date and notation Moderna Museat No. 146, in pencil, and his copyright hand stamp, on verso. 1930; printed 1960s
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Ilse bing (1899-1998)
Laundry, Frankfurt.
Silver print, the image measuring 6x9½ inches (15.2x24.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Bing’s signature and date, in ink, on print recto, and her signature, title, negative date, and inscription, in pencil, on verso. 1929; printed 1960s
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Ilse bing (1899-1998)
Bretagne, women with fishing in basket.
Silver print, the image measuring 8½x5⅝ inches (21.6x14.3 cm.), the mount 13x10½ inches (33x26.7 cm.), with Bing’s signature and date, in ink, on print recto, and her signature, title, and date, in pencil, on mount verso. 1935
Estimate
$1,400 – $1,800
Ilse bing (1899-1998)
Cosi fan tutte, Glyndebourne.
Silver print, the image measuring 11x8¼ inches (27.9x21 cm.), the mount 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Bing’s signature and date, in ink, on print recto, and her signature, title, and date, in pencil, on mount verso. 1937
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Alfred eisenstaedt (1898-1995)
A group of three photographs from St. Moritz showing the iconic ice skating waiters.
Silver press prints, the images measuring approximately 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), and one the reverse, each with Eisenstaedt’s Pix Publishing hand stamp on verso. 1932
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Lisette model (1901-1983)
Blind Man in front of billboard, Paris.
Silver print, the image measuring 24x19 inches (61x48.3 cm.), flush mounted, with Model’s signature and her notation No. 13, in ink, and an Estate hand stamp, on mount verso. 1933-38; printed circa 1980
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Henri cartier-bresson (1908-2004)
Alicante, Spain.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅛x10⅝ inches (18.1x27 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Cartier-Bresson’s hand stamp and the title and dates, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1933; printed 1970s
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
W. eugene smith (1918-1978)
Spinner, from Spanish Village.
Silver print, the image measuring 12¾x9 inches (32.4x22.9 cm.), the mount 19¾x16 inches (50.2x40.6 cm.), with Smith’s signature, with a stylus, on print recto. 1950; printed 1960s
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
(magnum–capa, rodger, cartier-bresson, chim)
Magnum Founders, In Celebration of Sixty Years Portfolio.
A sewn-bound portfolio complete with 12 platinum prints, including three each by Robert Capa, George Rodger, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and David “Chim” Seymour, four of the original seven founders of Magnum Photos. The edition also includes a free-standing platinum print by Capa, Pablo Picasso, Françoise Gilot and Javier Vilato, France, 1951. Foreword by Elliott Erwitt. Platinum prints, the images measuring 9¾x6½ to 10⅛x8 inches (24.8x16.5 to 25.7x20.3 cm.), and the reverse, each with the photographer’s Estate blind stamp, on recto. Oversize hand-bound black leather folio, the debossed title on the front cover; with signatures from the 2007 Magnum Photographers, and the edition number 41 (of 75), in pencil, in the rear of the book; housed in a black buckram covered clamshell portfolio box with the printed title on the front. Verso Editions, 2007
Estimate
$7,000 – $10,000
Cornell capa (1918-2008)
Bolshoi Ballet School.
Silver print, the image measuring 16⅞x11⅞ inches (42.9x30.2 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Capa’s initials, in pencil, and his copyright label, with his initials again, in pencil, and the title, negative date, and negative notation, in ink, on verso. 1956; printed 1990s
From Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; to the Present Owner.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Henri cartier-bresson (1908-2004)
Prizren, Yugoslavia.
Silver print, the image measuring 8½x12⅞ inches (21.6x32.7 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Cartier-Bresson’s hand stamp, a John Springer Collection hand stamp, and the title, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1965; printed 1970s
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Louis stettner (1922-2016)
Café au Pigalle, Paris.
Silver print, the image measuring 12¼ inches (31.1 cm.) square, the sheet 18½x16 inches (47x40.6 cm.), with Stettner’s credit blind stamp on recto, and his signature, title, and negative date, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1951; printed 1990s
From the Collection of Thomas Butterfield.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
Roger mayne (1929-2014)
Blonde Girl, Southam St., London.
Silver print, the image measuring 13¼x8½ inches (33.7x21.6 cm.), with Mayne’s signature, title, dates, and printing notations, in ink, and his copyright and 7a Addison Avenue, London hand stamps, on verso. 1956; printed circa 1957
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Roger mayne (1929-2014)
Southam Street.
Silver print, the image measuring 11⅜x7½ inches (28.8x19.1 cm.), with Mayne’s signature, title, dates, notation “vintage print,” and other numeric notations, in pencil and ink, on verso. 1956; printed circa 1957
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Inge morath (1923-2002)
Self Portrait, East Jerusalem.
Silver print, the image measuring 13x8¾ inches (33x22.2 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Morath’s signature and title, in pencil, on verso. 1958; printed 1980s
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Ed van der elsken (1925-1990)
Vali Myers voor de spiegel, Saint Germain des Pres.
Ferrotyped silver print, the image measuring 9½x7⅛ inches (24.1x18.1 cm.). 1951; printed 1960s
Gifted by van der Elsken to a family member.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Ed van der elsken (1925-1990)
St. Germain de Prés, Paris.
Silver print, the image measuring 9⅜ inches (23.8 cm.) square, with van der Elsken’s signature, title, notation “first print,” date, and inventory notation, in pencil, and his copyright hand stamp, on verso. 1953
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Robert doisneau (1912-1994)
Le Vert Galant.
Silver print, the image measuring 15½x19⅝ inches (39.4x49.8 cm.), the sheet 18⅞x22⅞ inches (48x58.1 cm.), with Doisneau’s signature, in ink, on recto, and his initials, title, and dates, in ink, on verso. 1950; printed 1981
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Robert doisneau (1912-1994)
Mademoiselle Anita.
Silver print, the image measuring 10⅝x9½ inches (27x24.1 cm.), the sheet 15¾x12 inches (40x30.5 cm.), with Doisneau’s signature, in ink, on recto, and his initials, title, and negative date, in ink, on verso. 1951; printed 1980s
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Robert doisneau (1912-1994)
Le Couple de la Rapée.
Silver print, the image measuring 11⅝x9½ inches (29.5x24.1 cm.), the sheet 16x12 inches (40.6x30.5 cm.), with Doisneau’s signature, in ink, on recto, and his initials, title, and dates, in ink, on verso. 1951; printed 1982
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Robert doisneau (1912-1994)
Les Ventres Louis XV.
Silver print, the image measuring 14⅞x11 inches (37.8x27.9 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Doisneau’s signature and title, in ink, and the print date, in pencil, on verso. 1955; printed 1972
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Édouard boubat (1923-1999)
Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris.
Silver print, the image measuring 8½x12½ inches (21.6x31.8 cm.), the sheet 11¾x15¾ inches (29.8x40 cm.), with Boubat’s signature, in ink, on recto, and his signature, again, title, and dates, in ink, on verso. 1955; printed 1974
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Willy ronis (1910-2009)
Quai Malaquais, Paris.
Silver print, the image measuring 12¾x10 inches (32.4x25.4 cm.), the sheet 15¾x11¾ inches (40x30 cm.), with Ronis’ signature, in ink, on recto, and his title, negative date, and notation, in pencil, the initialed print date, in ink, and his copyright hand stamp, on verso. 1953; printed 2000
Acquired at the Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica, California, by the Present Owner.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
Willy ronis (1910-2009)
Lorraine.
Silver print, the image measuring 17x12¼ inches (43.2x31.1 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Ronis’ signature, in ink, on recto, his title, negative date, and notation, in pencil, and his copyright hand stamp, on verso. 1954; printed 2000s
Acquired at the Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica, California, by the Present Owner.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Willy ronis (1910-2009)
Café Le Bidule.
Silver print, the image measuring 12¼x17¼ inches (31.1x43.8 cm.), the sheet 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Ronis’ signature, in ink, on recto, his title, negative date, and notation, in pencil, the initialed print date, in ink, and his copyright hand stamp, on verso. 1957; printed 2005
Acquired at the Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica, California, by the Present Owner.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Willy ronis (1910-2009)
Venice.
Silver print, the image measuring 17¼x11¼ inches (43.8x28.6 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Ronis’ signature, in ink, on recto, and his title, negative date, and notation 70/4224, in pencil, the initialed print date, in ink, and his copyright hand stamp, on verso. 1959; printed 2005
Acquired at the Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica, California, by the Present Owner.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Willy ronis (1910-2009)
Les Amoureux de la Bastille [The Lovers of the Bastille].
Silver print, the image measuring 9x13 inches (22.9x33 cm.), the sheet 12x15⅞ inches (30.5x40.3 cm.), with Ronis’ signature, in ink, on recto, and his partial title, negative date, notation, and initialed dates, in pencil, and his copyright hand stamp, on verso. 1957; printed 1988
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
André kertész (1894-1985)
Paris.
Silver print, the image measuring 7¾x9¾ inches (19.7x24.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Kertész’s notation Paris, date, and an additional notation, in pencil, on verso. 1963
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
André kertész (1894-1985)
Howard Beach.
Silver print, the image measuring 6½x9⅝ inches (16.4x49.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Kertész’s signature, negative date, and numeric notation 26, in ink, on verso. 1969
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Henri cartier-bresson (1908-2004)
Our Cat Ulysses and Martine’s Shadow.
Silver print, the image measuring 14x9½ inches (35.6x24.1 cm.), the sheet 16x12 inches (40.6x30.5 cm.), with Cartier-Bresson’s signature, in ink, and his copyright blind stamp, on recto. 1984
From Sotheby's, New York, October 6, 1999, lot 261A; to the Present Owner.
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
New York City
Wendell macrae (1896-1980)
Summer in New York.
Silver print, the image measuring 6½x4⅝ inches (16.5x11.7 cm.), with MacRae’s signature, title, date, and inscription, in pencil, and the copyright notation, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1932
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Lisette model (1901-1983)
Reflection, New York.
Silver print, the image measuring 19¼x24¼ inches (48.9x61.6 cm.), flush mounted, with Model’s Estate hand stamp on mount verso. 1940; printed circa 1980
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Berenice abbott (1898-1991)
Canyon: Broadway & Exchange Place, Manhattan.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7½ inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Abbott’s credit, in ink, and a Gamma Agency label, on verso. 1936
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Berenice abbott (1898-1991)
Broadway and Thomas Street.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Abbott’s Federal Art Project “Changing New York” hand stamp with her credit, title, date, and negative number, in ink, in an unknown hand, her 50 Commerce St. hand stamp, and a Duplicate hand stamp, on verso. 1936
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Berenice abbott (1898-1991)
O’Rourke’s Hotel, 11th Avenue and 22nd Street.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), with Abbott’s signature, in pencil, and her copyright hand stamp, on verso. Circa 1935
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Berenice abbott (1898-1991)
Frank L. Burns Coal Company.
Silver print, the image measuring 9⅜x7½ inches (23.8x19.1 cm.), flush mounted, with Abbott’s signature, in ink, and her 1 W. 67th Street hand stamp, on mount verso. 1937
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Berenice abbott (1898-1991)
Rockefeller Center Parking Space.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅛x9¾ inches (18.1x24.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Abbott’s Federal Art Project “Changing New York” hand stamp, with the title, location, negative number, and date, in pencil, on verso. 1938
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Berenice abbott (1898-1991)
Hoboken railroad yards, New Jersey.
Silver print, the image measuring 13⅜x19½ inches (34x49.5 cm.), the mount 24x30 inches (61x76.2 cm.), with Abbott’s signature and notation E, in pencil, on mount recto, and her Berenice Abbott’s New York hand stamp on mount verso. 1935; printed 1979
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Berenice abbott (1898-1991)
A portfolio entitled Berenice Abbott’s New York.
Complete with 12 of Abbott’s iconic New York City views. Silver prints, the images measuring 13½x3¼ to 10¾x13¾ inches (34.3x8.3 to 27.3x34.9 cm.) and the reverse, the mounts 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), each with Abbott’s block-lettered signature and edition notation 50/60, in pencil, on mount recto. Folio-sized brown cloth clamshell box; with the printed title page, plate list, and colophon; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 60 NUMBERED AND 5 LETTERED COPIES. New York: Parasol Press Ltd., 1931-38; printed 1979
Exchange Place * Night View * Fifth Avenue at 8th Street * Butcher Shop * Penn Station * El at Battery * Yuban Warehouse Lower Manhattan * Barclay Street Hoboken Ferry * Flat Iron Building * Hardware Store * Newsstand * Lyric Theatre
Acquired from Sotheby's, New York in April 2005 (lot 53); to a Private Midwest Collector.
Estimate
$25,000 – $35,000
Ruth orkin (1921-1985)
Washington Street, Greenwich Village.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x6¼ inches (24.1x15.9 cm.), flush mounted, with Orkin’s title, in ink, and hand stamps, on mount verso. 1940s
From the Collection of Thomas Butterfield.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
(weegee) [arthur fellig] (1899-1968)
People with umbrellas, Greenwich Village, New York.
Silver print, the image measuring 10½x13½ inches (26.7x34.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Weegee’s 451 W. 47 Street hand stamp, on verso. Circa 1945; printed 1980s
From an East Coast Collection.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Helen levitt (1913-2009)
N.Y. (woman and child with carriage).
Silver print, the image measuring 2¼x3¼ inches (5.7x8.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Levitt’s initials and the numeric notation 88, in pencil, on verso. 1942
From the Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York; to a private Miami Collector, in 1998.
Estimate
$1,800 – $2,200
Helen levitt (1913-2009)
N.Y. (shoeshine) * N.Y. (sandlot).
Together, 2 silver prints, the images measuring approximately 2¾x4 inches (7x10.2 cm.), and the reverse, and slightly smaller, the sheets slightly larger, each with Levitt’s signature and numeric notation 93 and 116, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1940
From the Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York; to a private Miami Collector, in 1998.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Sid grossman (1913-1955)
New York - the Eight Avenue “El” goes down.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅞x9¾ inches (20x24.8 cm.), with Grossman’s credit hand stamp, and his title, in ink, on verso. Circa 1941
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Brett weston (1911-1993)
New York Sidewalk.
Silver print, the image measuring 10¼x13⅝ inches (26x34.6 cm.), the mount 15¾x18 inches (40x45.7 cm.), with Weston's signature and date 1945, in pencil, on mount recto, and his signature, title, and date 1946, in pencil, on mount verso. 1945; printed 1950s
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Andreas feininger (1906-1999)
City Services Building, 70 Pine Street.
Silver print, the image measuring 13¼x10½ inches (33.7x26.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Feininger’s signature, in ink, on verso. 1940; printed 1980s
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Andreas feininger (1906-1999)
A two-part panorama titled N.Y. Skyline seen from foot of Great Notch Mt.
Ferrotyped silver prints, the image overall measuring 9⅝x15⅝ inches (24.4x39.7 cm.), each print with Feininger’s signature, in ink, the title and copyright date, in pencil, and his Foto hand stamp, on verso. 1941; printed 1960s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Louis faurer (1916-2001)
New York City (two women by car).
Silver print, the image measuring 11x7¼ inches (27.9x cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Faurer’s signature and negative date, in ink, on recto. 1947; printed 1980s
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Louis faurer (1916-2001)
New York (four women).
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x11⅜ inches (19.1x28.9 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Faurer’s signature, title, and dates, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1949; printed 1980
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Louis faurer (1916-2001)
New York (man in a plaid coat).
Silver print, the image measuring 7x10½ inches (17.8x26.7 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Faurer’s signature, title, and dates, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1950; printed 1980
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Walker evans (1903-1975)
Bowling Green Subway Entrance.
Silver print, the image measuring 6⅝x9⅞ inches (16.8x25.1 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with a caption, in blue pencil, on recto, and Fortune and Time Inc. hand stamps, with Evans’ credit, caption, and date, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1956
From an East Coast Collection.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Walker evans (1903-1975)
Group of 4 photographs of cast iron façades in New York City.
Silver prints, the images measuring 10½ inches (26.7 cm.) square, the sheets 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), one with cropping notations on recto, and each with the Lunn Archive hand stamp with the numeric notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand, and three with a Cr. Walker Evans 4/8/63 hand stamp, on verso. 1963
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Elliott erwitt (1928- )
Hoboken.
Silver print, the image measuring 6½x4½ inches (16.5x11.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Erwitt’s signature, in pencil, on recto, and his signature, title, date, and notation “vintage print,” in pencil, and other numeric notations, in pencil and ink, on verso. 1954
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Lou stoumen (1917-1991)
A portfolio entitled Forty Years.
Complete with 20 photographs spanning the photographer's long career. Silver prints, the images measuring 13½x18 inches (34.3x45.7 cm.), and smaller, and the reverse, the sheets 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), each with Stoumen's signature, in ink, on recto, and the portfolio title and edition notation 3/50, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso; each enclosed in a folder with the printed title, extended caption, print number, and negative date. Folio-sized black metal box with a silver label; the colophon with Stoumen's signature and the edition notation "three," in ink, and an artist's statement; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 50 PLUS 10 ARTIST'S PROOFS. The Witkin Gallery & G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, 1940-79; printed 1980-81
Sailor & Girl, New York City, 1940 * Times Square in the Rail, New York City, 1940 * Black Cat Bar & Brothel, San Juan Puerto Rico, 1942 * Dying Girl, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1942 * War & Peace, 1943 * Bomb Pin, Kunming, China, 1944 * Old Man, Boy Soldier, Chengtu, China, 1944 * The Taj Mahal from the Air, Agra, India, 1944 * The Day FDR Died, Chester, Pennsylvania, 1945 * Baby/Bed/Jesus, Los Angeles, California, 1950 * Young Woman, Brooklyn, NY, 1962 * The Lovers, Berkeley, California, 1969 * Adobe Church, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, 1977 * Black Horse, Black Dog, Salida, Colorado, 1978 * Fantasy Car, Sausalito, California, 1978 * 43rd Street off Broadway, New York City, 1978 * Street Woman, Times Square, 1979 * The Barber, Naolinco, Mexico, 1979 * The Butcher, Naolinco, Mexico, 1979 * Storm, Xalapa, Mexico, 1979.
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Lou stoumen (1917-1991)
Times Square and Horn and Hardart.
Silver print, the image measuring 9x12 inches (22.9x30.5 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Stoumen’s signature and edition notation 13/25, in ink, on recto. 1940; printed 1976
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
William klein (1928- )
Sweeney’s, 3rd Avenue, from the New York portfolio.
Silver print, the image measuring 12x9 inches (30.5x22.9 cm.), the sheet 16x12 inches (40.6x30.5 cm.), with Klein’s signature, the portfolio title, and edition notation 16, in pencil, on verso. 1955; printed 1978
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
George forss (1941- )
Midtown.
Silver print, the image measuring 10x12 inches (25.4x30.5 cm.), the sheet 10¾x13⅜ inches (27.3x34 cm.), with Forss’ signature, partial title, print date, and other notations, in pencil, on recto. Circa 1970s; printed 1983
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
American Photography of the 1950s-70s
Max yavno (1911-1985)
Muscle Beach, Los Angeles.
Silver print, the image measuring 5¼x8⅞ inches (13.3x22.5 cm.), the mount 6½x10½ inches (16.5x26.7 cm.), with Yavno’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto. 1949; printed 1960s
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
O. winston link (1914-2001)
Hotshot Eastbound, Iaeger, West Virginia.
Silver print, the image measuring 15⅜x19⅜ inches (39.1x49.2 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Link’s signature and Conchita’s printing credit, print date, negative notation NW 1103, and additional printing notations, in pencil, and his copyright hand stamp with the negative notation, again, in ink, on verso. 1957; printed 1988
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$7,000 – $10,000
O. winston link (1914-2001)
Hawksbill Creek Swimming Hole, Luray, Virginia.
Silver print, the image measuring 19¼x15½ inches (48.9x39.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Link’s signature, print date, negative notation NW 1126, and additional printing notations, in pencil, and his copyright hand stamp, also with the negative notation, in ink, on verso. 1956; printed 1987
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
O. winston link (1914-2001)
Mr. & Mrs. Ben F. Pope & Last Steam Passenger Train, Max Meadows, Virginia * A. L. Poteet lubricates Locomotive 563 at Bluefield.
Silver contact prints, the images measuring 3¾x4¾ inches (9.5x12.1 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, with Link’s OWL hand stamp and numeric notations, in pencil, on verso. 1957 and 1955
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
O. winston link (1914-2001)
Main Line on Main Street, North Fork, West Virginia.
Silver print, the image measuring 15½x19¼ inches (39.4x48.9 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Link’s signature, print date, negative notation NW 1966, and additional printing notations, in pencil, and his copyright hand stamp with the negative notation, in ink, on verso. 1958; printed 1995
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Walter rosenblum (1919-2006)
Three men.
Silver print, the image measuring 12¼x10½ inches (31.1x26.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, flush mounted, with Rosenblum’s signature, title, location, and date, in ink, on mount verso. 1952
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Walter rosenblum (1919-2006)
Basket, Flower Pot, Cat, Girl.
Silver print, the image measuring 10½x13½ inches (26.7x34.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, the mount 11¼x14¼ inches (28.6x36.2 cm.), with Rosenblum’s signature, title, location, and date, in pencil, on mount verso. 1952
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Nat fein (1914-2000)
Babe Bows Out.
Silver print, the image measuring 10⅞x13½ inches (27.6x34.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Fein’s signature and inscription, in ink, on recto. 1948
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Irving penn (1917-2009)
Joe Louis.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7¼ inches (24.1x18.4 cm.), the mount 15x11 inches (38.1x27.9 cm.), with Penn's signature, location New York, and date, in ink, on mount recto, and his credit hand stamp, on mount verso. 1948
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Louis draper (1935-2002)
Miles Davis.
Silver print, the image measuring 10½x7½ inches (26.7x19.1 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Draper’s title and printing notations, in pencil, on verso; accompanied by a Steven Kasher Gallery label with the artist credit, title, and date. 1965
Draper was an early member of Kamoinge Workshop, a collective of Black photographers established in New York City in 1963.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Chris smith (1937- )
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee, taken at the 5th Street Gym, Miami, as Ali prepares for his first fight with Joe Frazier.
Silver print, the image measuring approximately 16x23½ inches (40.6x59.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Smith’s signature and edition notation 1/25, in ink, on the overmat; framed. 1971; printed later
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Allen ginsberg (1926-1997)
Jack Kerouac, railroad brakeman’s rule-book in pocket.
Silver print, the image measuring16x10⅝ inches (40.6x27 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Ginsberg’s Trust hand stamp with the Trustee Bob Rosenthal’s signature, in pencil, on verso. 1953; printed before 1997
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Robert Frank and the American Scene
Robert Frank, a photographer who is indelibly associated with the inequity, grit, beauty, and paradox of the American social landscape, included a number of images featuring cars in his seminal photo book The Americans. In his vision, Americans are on the road together, alone, for pleasure, out of necessity, sometimes in gleaming autos, sometimes a blur of speed and joy, sometimes a means of endured transport, sometimes a means of finding connection with others, sometimes a means of displaying and establishing identity. Memorably, the last image in the volume features Frank’s family huddled in a car (U.S. 90, en route to Del Rio, Texas), a marker of his own cross-country road trip to make images, and his own relationship with an automobile.
Covered Car, Long Beach, California features an automobile shrouded and situated under two looming palm trees, its form made distinct and hard in the California light, is the most iconic. The folds of the cover offer an elegant visual counterweight to the rest of the composition, the draping lines and the gleaming textile subtly suggesting their own sensuality. The image seemingly speaks to 1950s economic comfort and to the glamorous (if mysterious) California lifestyle, while simultaneously offering a sly commentary on our national obsession with cars.
Jack Kerouac, in his iconic introduction to The Americans, comments on this photograph: “Car shrouded in fancy expensive designed tarpolian to keep soots of no-soot Malibu from falling on new simonize job as owner who is two-dollar-an-hour carpenter snoozes in house with wife, and TV, all under palm trees for nothing, in the cemeterial California night.”
Robert frank (1924-2019)
Covered Car, Long Beach, California.
Silver print, the image measuring 8¾x13¼ inches (22.2x33.7 cm.), the mount 18x22 inches (45.7x55.8 cm.), with Frank’s signature, inscription, and print date, in ink, on mount recto. 1955-56; printed 1971
The inscription reads “For the Workshop - for Linda - for the Palm-Trees and for photography.”
Acquired from the photographer when Frank was a visiting artist at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York in 1971.
Frank, The Americans, no. 77.
Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, p. 250.
Greenough, Robert Frank: Moving Out, p. 187.
Bayer, et al., Concerning Photography: Some Thoughts About Reading Photographs, p. 52.
Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, pl. 102.
Green, American Photography: A Critical History 1945-Present, p. 169.
Hinson, The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Photography, p. 167.
Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence, p. 45.
Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye, p. 26.
Estimate
$50,000 – $70,000
Robert frank.
Gli Americani [The Americans].
(Milan): Il Saggiatore, (1959)
Texts collected and presented by Alain Bosquet and Raffaele Crovi. With the graphic cover design by Saul Steinberg. Illustrated with reproductions of Frank’s iconic photographs of the American scene. Oblong 8vo, pictorial laminate-covered boards, slightly soiled. FIRST ITALIAN EDITION.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Roy DeCarava's Visions of Harlem
Born in Harlem in 1919, Roy DeCarava began his formal artist career studying painting at The Cooper Union Institute, then painting and printmaking at the Harlem Community Arts Center, and subsequently drawing and painting under Charles White. He picked up a camera with the intention of documenting his printmaking progress, and it became his sole artistic focus in the 1940s. He brought an attuned sense of composition and tonal sophistication to the photographic medium.
DeCarava’s key subjects of interests are the streets, the home, and jazz. Instead of taking a purely documentary approach to photographing everyday Harlem life, he sought to personally understand, capture, and elevate the varied textures and soul of his neighborhood. DeCarava said of his work, “It’s not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject.”
An innovative and skilled darkroom technician, DeCarava’s prints are known for their darkness. He started printing with a rich range of luxurious grays in the early 1950s, and the stylistic choice was further encouraged by the New York jazz scene. The result is alluring and mysterious photographs, that reveal meaning in layers of gray.
The early classic still life Catsup Bottles, Table and Coat, New York, was taken in 1952 and exemplifies DeCarava’s ability to render intimate, expressive qualities in form and tone. The balanced composition of light and shadow produces a subtle gradation that never quite deliveries a pure white. When considered carefully DeCarava’s images disclose themes of social, cultural, and historical significance in their complex tonality.
Roy decarava (1919-1919)
Catsup Bottles, Table and Coat, New York.
Silver print, the image measuring 8¾x13 inches (22.2x33 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with DeCarava’s signature, in ink, and the title, dates, and copyright notation, in ink, in an unknown hand, on recto. 1952; printed 1982
The DeCarava Foundation, New York; to Joy of Giving Something Foundation, 1996; Phillips, The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation, Part 1, April 3, 2017, lot 43; to the Present Owner.
Alinder, Roy DeCarava Photographs, pl. 25.
Galassi, Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective, p. 110.
Estimate
$20,000 – $30,000
Dave heath (1931-2016)
Sheila and Arnie, Seven Arts Coffee Gallery, NYC.
Silver print, the image measuring 7¼x9¾ inches (18.4x24.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Heath’s signature, in ink, on recto, and the title, dates (circa 1957), inventory notations, and the notation “preliminary printing for ADWS,” in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1959; printed 1962
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Bruce davidson (1933- )
Brooklyn Gang.
Silver print, the image measuring 8½x12⅝ inches (21.6x32 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Davidson’s signature, in pencil, on verso; accompanied by a small printed label from Aperture with the edition notation AP #1/4. 1959; printed 1990s
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Bruce davidson (1933- )
Cathy & Reed: Happy Life Together.
Silver print, the image measuring 8x12 inches (20.3x30.5 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Davidson’s signature, title, and print date, in pencil, on verso. 1960s; printed 1987
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Ralph eugene meatyard (1925-1972)
Boy by window.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½ inches (19.1 cm.) square, the sheet 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), with Madelyn O. Meatyard’s signature, in ink, on verso. Circa 1960
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Ray metzker (1931-2014)
Chicago.
Silver print, the image measuring 7¼ inches (18.4 cm.) square, the sheet 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), with a Printed by Ray Metzker hand stamp with the date, in pencil, and a RKM Archive hand stamp with the Director Vicki Harris’ initials and an edition notation 1/5, in pencil, on verso. 1959
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Ray metzker (1931-2014)
Philadelphia.
Silver print, the image measuring 6¼x9 inches (15.9x22.9 cm.), the mount 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Metzker’s signature, edition notation 12/25, and notation Exhibited 1969, in pencil, on mount verso. 1963
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Ray metzker (1931-2014)
From the series, Sand Creatures.
Silver print, the image measuring 4¾x6⅜ inches (12.1x16.2 cm.), the sheet 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), with Metzker’s signature, edition notation 3/20, and printing notations, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1975
From a Private Miami Collection.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Henry wessel (1942-2018)
San Francisco.
Silver print, the image measuring 11¾x7⅞ inches (29.8x20 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.). 1973
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Robert adams (1937- )
Land for Sale and development (Views of Pikes Peak), Colorado.
Silver print, the image measuring 6 inches (15.2 cm.) square, the trimmed sheet 7⅜x7⅞ inches (18.7x20 cm.), with Adams’ initials and print dates, in pencil, on verso. 1968-72
From Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, New York.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Robert adams (1937- )
Untitled.
Silver print, the image measuring 5⅞x7½ inches (14.9x19.1 cm.), the trimmed mount 7⅜x8⅞ inches (18.7x22.5 cm.), with Adams’ hand-ruled black ink border, on mount recto. 1973-74
From Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, New York.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
George a. tice (1938- )
White Castle, Route 1, Rahway, New Jersey.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅝x9⅝ inches (19.4x24.4 cm.), the mount 14x17 inches (35.6x43.2 cm.), with Tice’s block-lettered signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and his title, dates, printing notations, and inscription, in ink, on mount verso. 1973; printed 1980
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Danny lyon (1942- )
Oaxaca, México.
Silver print, the image measuring 8⅝x13¼ inches (21.9x33.7 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Lyon’s signature, title, and date, in pencil, on verso. 1978
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Elliott erwitt (1928- )
Wyoming.
Silver print, the image measuring 11¾x17¾ inches (29.8x45.1 cm.), the sheet 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Erwitt’s signature, in ink, on recto, and his signature, title, and negative date, in pencil, on verso. 1954; printed 1980s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Elliott erwitt (1928- )
Bearded man with tree, Venice, California.
Silver print, the image measuring 15⅝x10½ inches (39.7x26.7 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Erwitt’s signature, in ink, on recto, and his signature, partial title, and date, in pencil, on verso. 1976
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Jack welpott (1923-2007)
Twinka (Back).
Silver print, the image measuring 8½x6½ inches (21.6x16.5 cm.), the sheet 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), with Welpott’s signature, in pencil, on recto. 1970
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Jack welpott (1923-2007)
Sabine, Arles.
Silver print, the image measuring 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), the mount 15x13 inches (38.1x33 cm.), with Welpott’s signature, title, and date, in pencil, on mount recto. 1973; printed 1980s
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Judy dater (1941- )
Maggie Wells * Nehemiah.
Silver prints, the images measuring 17⅞x13⅞ inches (45.4x352 cm.), and slightly smaller, the sheets 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), each with Dater’s signature, in pencil, on recto, and the first with the title and negative date, in pencil, on verso. 1970 and 1975; printed 1970s
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Ralph gibson (1939- )
Portrait of a young woman, from If & (silk).
Silver print, the image measuring 8x12¼ inches (20.3x31.1 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Gibson’s signature, date, and notation AP, in pencil, on verso. 1978
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Larry fink (1941- )
International Center of Photography, Peter Beard Opening.
Silver print, the image measuring 14½x14¼ inches (36.8x36.2 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Fink’s signature, title, and negative date, in pencil, on verso. 1977; printed 1990s
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Diane arbus (1923-1971)/neil selkirk (1947- )
Masked Women in a Wheelchair, PA.
Silver print, the image measuring 14¾x14½ inches (37.5x36.8 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with the A Diane Arbus Photograph hand stamp with Doon Abrus' signature, the title, negative date, edition notation 37/75, and Neil Selkirk's credit, in ink, as well as the Estate Copyright (with the date 1972) and reproduction limitation hand stamp, on verso; with a Rose Gallery label on frame verso. 1970; printed 1972
From a Private Miami Collection.
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Jill freedman (1939-2019)
Street Cops, New York City.
Silver print on RC paper, the image measuring 9⅞x6⅝ inches (25.1x16.8 cm.), the sheet 11x8½ inches (927.9x21.6 cm.), with the title, on recto, and Freedman’s signature (twice) and title, in ink, on verso. 1979
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Garry winogrand (1928-1984)
Cheerleaders.
Silver print, the image measuring 8¾x13 inches (22.2x33 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Winogrand's signature, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1980
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
Lillian bassman (1917-2012)
Barbara Mullen Blowing Kiss (variant), Harper’s Bazaar.
Silver print, the image measuring 19⅛x18⅜ inches (48.6x46.7 cm.), the sheet 24x20 inches (61x50.8 cm.), with Bassman’s signature and edition notation 25/25, in pencil, on verso. 1950; printed 1990s
Acquired from the Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
Milton greene (1922-1985)
Marilyn Monroe riding a pink elephant at Madison Square Garden.
Silver print, the image measuring 14x18 inches (35.6x45.7 cm.), the sheet 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Greene’s credit hand stamp, on verso. 1955; printed 1980s
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Ernst haas (1921-1986)
On the set of The Misfits.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x14 inches (24.1x35.6 cm.), with Haas’ hand stamp (twice) and a numeric notation, in pencil, on verso. 1960
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Bert stern (1929-2013)
Marilyn in Fuchsia Scarf.
Pigment print, the image measuring 9⅞x9¾ inches (25.1x24.8 cm.), the sheet 19x13 inches (48.3x33 cm.), with Stern’s signature, partial title, and edition notation 29/100, in red pencil, on recto; accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity signed by Stern. 1962; printed 2012
Estimate
$1,800 – $2,200
Lawrence schiller (1936- )
Marilyn Monroe.
Oversize silver print, the image measuring 37¼x55½ inches (95.3x141 cm.), the sheet 48x60 inches (121.9x152.4 cm.), with Schiller’s signature and edition notation 1/35, in ink, on recto. 1962; printed 2000s
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
(che guevara)
A collection of three portraits of the revolutionary as a young man.
Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), one with the notation St. Naranjo in the negative, and a St. Naranjo studio hand stamp, on verso. Circa 1955
From a Private New York Collection.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
Alberto korda (1928-2001)
Guerrillero Heroico (Che Guevara).
Silver print, the image measuring 14¼x16⅜ inches (36.2x41.6 cm.), the sheet 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Korda’s signature, in ink, on recto. 1960; printed 1980s
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Elliott erwitt (1928- )
Jacqueline Kennedy, Arlington, Virginia.
Silver print, the image measuring 11x17¾ inches (27.9x45.1 cm.), the sheet 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Erwitt’s signature, in ink, on recto, and his signature, partial title, and negative date, in pencil, on verso. 1963; printed 1980s
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Paul fusco (1930-2020)
From the series RFK Funeral Train.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 15x22½ inches (38.1x57.2 cm.), the sheet 20x24 inches (50.8x61 cm.), with Fusco’s signature, title, and negative date, in pencil, on verso. 1968; printed later
From a Private Miami Collection.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Robert frank (1924-2019)
Portrait of Tom Waits.
Silver print, the image measuring 13x8¾ inches (33x22.2 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Frank’s signature and negative date, in ink, on recto. 1985
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Peter hujar (1934-1987)
Portrait of Henry Lyon Young.
Silver print, the image measuring 14¾ inches (37.5 cm.) square, the sheet 19¾x15¾ inches (50.2x40 cm.), with Hujar’s signature, title, date, edition notation 4/15, and numeric notation, in ink, on verso. 1981
Acquired directly from the photographer; to a Private New York Collector.
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
Robert mapplethorpe (1946-1989)
A pair of photographs of Gregory Hines.
Silver prints, the images measuring 19x15¼ inches (48.3x38.7 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, flush mounted, each with Mapplethorpe’s signature and date, and one inscribed “for Gregory” and the other inscribed “for Pam”, in ink, on mount verso. 1985
Acquired from Sotheby's, New York in April 2005, lot 190; to a Private Midwest Collector.
Estimate
$12,000 – $18,000
Lee friedlander (1934- )
Nude (Madonna).
Silver print, the image measuring 12⅞x8½ inches (32.7x21.6 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Friedlander’s signature, negative date, inventory number, and numeric notation, in pencil, and his copyright hand stamp, on verso. 1979; printed 1990s
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
Color Photography
Saul leiter (1923-2013)
Man on the street, Camarena, Spain.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 13x8½ inches (33x21.6 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.). Circa 1959; printed 1980s
From the Collection of Thomas Butterfield. This print was gifted by Leiter to Butterfield in the 1980s.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Saul leiter (1923-2013)
Woman in scarf, Italy.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 12⅞x8½ inches (32.7x21.6 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.). Circa 1959; printed 1980s
From the Collection of Thomas Butterfield. This print was gifted by Leiter to Butterfield in the 1980s.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Saul leiter (1923-2013)
Woman with fan, Italy.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring approximately 13x8¾ inches (33x22.2 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.). 1959; printed 1980s
From the Collection of Thomas Butterfield. This print was gifted by Leiter to Butterfield in the 1980s.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Henry holmes smith (1909-1986)
Tri Color Collage.
Dye transfer print, the image measuring 4¼x6 inches (10.8x15.2 cm.), the sheet 5⅛x8 inches (13x20.3 cm.), with Smith's signature, title, dates, and inscription, in pencil, on verso. 1945-72; printed 1972
Smith was a photographer and educator whose works experimented with light and color. His dye-transfer prints are characterized by their vibrant hues and some include layered images.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
(erwin blumenfeld) (1897-1969)
Water Effect, Cover Study, New York.
Dye transfer print, the image measuring 12⅝x9⅞ inches (32.1x25.1 cm.), the sheet 19x15½ inches (48.3x39.4 cm.), with the Estate hand stamp, and initialed by F.C. Gundlach with the edition notation 22/50, in pencil, on verso. Early 1950s; printed 1984
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Ernst haas (1921-1986)
Nevada Sky, USA.
Dye transfer print, the image measuring 18½x28 inches (47x71.1 cm.), the sheet 20½x30 inches (52.1x76.2 cm.), with the Haas Studio hand stamp with Alexander Haas' signature, the title, dates, edition notation 11/50, and printing notations, in pencil, on verso. 1960; printed 1995
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Joel meyerowitz (1938- )
Storm over Corn Hill Beach, Truro, Cape Cod.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Meyerowitz’s signature, title, dates, and copyright notation, in ink, on verso. 1976; printed 1979
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Joel meyerowitz.
A Summer’s Day.
Beautifully illustrated with 65 color reproductions of Meyerowitz’s photographs. 4to, calf-backed blue boards, front cover bowed; buckram slipcase. DELUXE EDITION ISSUED WITH A PHOTOGRAPH; SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY MEYEROWITZ.
(Weston, Massachusetts): Times Books & Floyd A. Yearout, (1985)
WITH–Joel Meyerowitz. Dinner Table. Dye transfer print, the image measuring 10¾x13¾ inches (27.3x34.9 cm.), the sheet 14x17 inches (35.6x43.2 cm.), with Meyerowitz’s signature, in ink, on recto. 1983; printed 1985
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Richard misrach (1949- )
Painted Desert.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 18¼x23 inches (45.4x58.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Misrach’s signature, title, dates, and edition notation 15/25, in ink, on recto. 1982; printed 1986
Acquired from Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco in 1987; to a Private Collector; to a Private Midwest Collector in 1988.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
(mitch epstein; joel meyerowitz; john pfahl, et alia)
A portfolio entitled The New Color, 10 American Photographers.
With 10 (of 10) photographs by American practitioners using color in the 1970s, including Michael Bishop, Joyce Culver, Mitch Epstein, Len Jenshel, Barbara Karant, Joe Maloney, Roger Mertin, Joel Meyerowitz, John Pfahl, and Bill Ravanesi. Chromogenic prints, the images measuring approximately 9½x12¼ to 15x19 inches (24.1x31.1 to 38.1x48.3 cm.), each with the photographer's signature, in ink, on recto or verso, and some with title, date, and edition notation 43/50; each individually matted. Elephant folio-sized blue cloth clamshell box; the colophon with the edition notation 43, in pencil; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 50 COPIES. New York: Abbeville Press, 1977-79; printed 1981
Mitch Epstein, Joan of Arc Monument, NYC, 1978 * Michael Bishop, Untitled (red fence), 1979 * Joyce Culver, Two Mailboxes, Boca Raton, Florida, 1978 * Len Jenshel, So. San Francisco, CA, 1978 * Barbara Karant, Untitled (plants over bed), 1978 * Joe Maloney, Rt. 80, Pa., 1979 * Roger Mertin, Rochester, NY, 1979 * Joel Meyerowitz, Untitled (Porch, Provincetown), 1981 * John Pfahl, Untitled (women's port-a-potty), nd * Bill Ravanesi, Untitled (group in yellow rain coats), nd.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Eliot porter (1901-1990)
Portfolio Two: Iceland.
A stunning portfolio with 12 (of 12) photographs of the varied and lush flora and vibrant landscapes of Iceland. Dye transfer prints, the images measuring approximately 8¼x10½ inches (21x26.7 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 20x14¾ inches (50.8x37.5 cm.), each with Porter’s Portfolio II: Iceland hand stamp, with the print number and set notation 42, in ink, on mount verso. Folio-sized blue cloth folder with the white stamped title; the colophon with Porter’s signature and the edition notation 42/110, in ink; contents loose as issued. ONE OF 110 NUMBERED COPIES. Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1972; printed 1975
Tarn and Cotton Grass, Fjardharheidhi * Pinks on Glacial Moraine, Sotuh Coast Small * Stream in Cinders, Skeljafell * White Flowers in Black Ash Cliff, Breidhidalur * Ice in Glacial Lake, Fjnllsarlon, South Coast * Lichens on River Stones, South Coast * Fractured Obsidian, Landmannalaugar * Steam Vent, Landmannalaugar * Sea-weed at Low Tide, Hellnar, Snaefellsnas * Wind Eroded Voncanic Ash, Kleifarvatn * Abandoned Farm, South Coast * River Canyon Junction, Oxnadalsheidhi.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Harry callahan (1912-1999)
Acme Sign Shop, Providence.
Dye transfer print, the image measuring 8¾x13⅜ inches (22.2x34 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Callahan’s signature, in pencil, on recto. 1977
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Jan groover (1943-2012)
Still Life.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 19x14¾ inches (48.3x37.5 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Groover’s signature, date, and edition notation 3/3, in ink, on recto. 1978
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
William eggleston (1939- )
Untitled (pink flowers).
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 8¾x13 inches (22.2x33 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Eggleston’s signature and notation “1st printing,” in ink, on verso. 1980
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Eliot porter (1901-1990)
Sculptured Rock, Marble Canyon, Arizona * Pool in a brook, Pond Brook, near Whiteface, New Hampshire.
Together, 2 dye transfer prints, the images measuring 16x12½ inches (40.6x31.8 cm.), the mounts 24x20 inches (61x50.8 cm.), each with Porter’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and an Eliot Porter: In Wildness Edition of 300 Portfolio hand stamp and a Daniel Wolf, Eliot Porter copyright hand stamp, on verso. 1953 & 1967; printed 1981
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Eliot porter (1901-1990)
Portfolio entitled In Wildness.
With 10 elegant photographs of natural scenes from across the United States. Dye transfer prints, the images measuring approximately 16x12½ inches (40.7x31.8 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 20x24 inches (50.8x61 cm.), each with Porter’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and an Eliot Porter: In Wildness Edition of 300 Portfolio hand stamp and a Daniel Wolf, Eliot Porter copyright hand stamp, on verso; each print housed in individual folders with the printed title and date. Elephant folio-sized clamshell box with a gilt-lettered brown leather title label; the colophon with Porter’s signature and the edition notation 180, in ink; contents loose as issued. ONE OF 300 NUMBERED COPIES. (New York): Eliot Porter with Daniel Wolf Press, 1953-81; printed 1981
Pool in a brook. Pond Brook, near Whiteface, New Hampshire, October 1953 * Maple leaves and pine needles. Tamworth, New Hampshire, October 3, 1956 * Red osier. Near Great Barrington, Massachusetts., April 18, 1957 * Path in woods. Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, 1981 * Hawkweed in meadow. Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, 1968 * Tidal marsh. Mount Desert Island, Maine, August 4, 1965 * Sunflower and sand dune. Colorado, 1959 * Sculptured rock. Marble Canyon, Arizona, 1967 * Maple sapling and rock. Passaconaway, New Hampshire, 1953 * Sunset behind Las Tres Virgenes Volcano. Near Mezquital, Baja, California, August 12, 1966
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Jan groover (1943-2012)
Untitled triptych (red, yellow, grey trucks).
Together, 3 chromogenic prints, each image measuring 8¾x13 inches (22.2x13 cm.), the mount 20x51 inches (50.8x129.5 cm.), with Groover’s signature, date, edition notation 3/3, and numeric notations, in pencil, on verso; with a Robert Miller Gallery label, a Janet Borden Inc. gallery label, and an Akron Art Museum exhibition label, on frame verso. 1975
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Peter Beard's Diaristic Photographs
Peter Beard was a photographer well-known for his pictures of Africans and African wildlife. He made his first trip to the continent when he was 17, photographing with a Voigtländer camera his grandmother had given him. In 2013 Beard wrote to Robert Kolker, a journalist for New York Magazine, “I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.”
In the 1960s, concurrent with a project about the demise of starving elephants and black rhinos, Beard began creating elaborate, large format photo-collage “diaries” (hardly an unheard of project for Beard; he had been making diaries with collaged imagery since the age of 12). The “diaries” incorporated everything from postage stamps to news clippings to smears of animal blood. He purchased Hog Ranch, an encampment outside of Nairobi, in the mid-60s. In the following decades, his work focused on documenting the Kenyan environment, its people, wildlife and landscape, as well as conservation and man’s impact on nature. From the 1970s until his passing in 2020, Beard split his time between Hog Ranch and his home in Montauk.
This photograph, entitled Cheetah Orphans in Mweiga near Nyeri, is one of Beard’s most iconic images, a poignant and impactful depiction of two orphaned cheetah cubs. Though this image is the basis for other works, each piece is entirely unique, as each photograph is treated as a district canvas upon which Beard has added his drawings, collages, and/or handwritten text.
Peter beard (1938-2020)
Cheetah Orphans in Mweiga near Nyeri.
Silver print, the image measuring 15¼x22⅜ inches (38.7x56.8 cm.), the sheet 20x24 inches (40.6x61 cm.), with Beard’s signature, title, date, and notations, in white ink, on recto; with a The Time is Always Now gallery label on frame verso. 1968; printed 1990s
A gift from art dealer and artist Peter Tunney; to the Present Owner by Descent.
Estimate
$30,000 – $45,000
Kohei yoshiyuki (1946- )
A pair of images from the series The Park.
Together, 2 silver prints, the images measuring 12¼x18½ inches (31.1x47 cm.), the sheet 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), each with Yoshiyuki’s signature and edition notations 3/10 & 5/10, in ink, and a hand stamp, on verso; each with a Yossi Milo Gallery label on frame verso. 1971; printed 2006
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Seydou keïta (1921-2001)
Portrait of a young man.
Silver print, the image measuring 21½x15 inches (54.6x38.1 cm.), the sheet 24x20 inches (61x50.8 cm.), with Keïta’s signature, twice, the notation “49 A 51,” and the print date, in ink, on recto. 1949-51; printed 1995
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Malick sidibé (1935-2016)
Chemise with 19 photographs.
Silver prints, the images measuring 3⅛x2¼ inches (7.9x5.7 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, the folder mount 12½x19 inches (31.8x48.3 cm.), with numeric notations under each print, in ink, on mount recto. Circa 1970
Sidibé was a frequent attendee of the late night social scene in Mali during the 1960s and 1970s where he would photograph young men and women partying, posing, and dancing to Western music. Following the event he would process the film and print proof prints, which he mounted to a folder with the inscribed event date and individual inventory numbers. Party attendees could then place orders for the photographs. Through this form of documentation, Sidibé became a chronicler of the independence and transformation of Mali.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Malick sidibé (1935-2016)
Seul sur ma moto Vespa [Alone on my Vespa moterbike].
Silver print, the image measuring 6¾x6¼ inches (17.1x15.9 cm.), the sheet 9½x7½ inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), with Sidibé’s signature and tile, in ink, on recto, and his Studio Malick hand stamp, on verso. 1977; printed 2000s
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Steve mccurry (1950- )
Afghan Girl (Sharbat Gula)
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 21¼x14⅛ inches (54x35.9 cm.), the sheet 24x20 inches (61x50.8 cm.), flush mounted to aluminum, with McCurry’s signature, in ink, on a label on mount verso. 1985
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
Flor garduño (1957- )
Virgen de los Angeles.
Silver print, the image measuring 8⅞x12 inches (22.5x30.5 cm.), the sheet 11⅛x14 inches (28.3x35.6 cm.), with Garduño’s signature, title, dates, and inventory number, in pencil, on verso. 1987; printed 1995
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Richard hamilton (1922-2011)
A postcard titled Whitley Bay done for Robert Fraser Gallery, London.
Hand-tinted print on carte-postale paper, the image measuring 4x6 inches (10.2x15.2 cm.), with Hamilton’s credit, title, date, and gallery information printed on verso. 1965-66
From Robert Fraser; to Peter Gidal, in 1971.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Evelyn hofer (1922-2009)
Two Chairs, London.
Silver print, the image measuring 13x10⅛ inches (33x25.7 cm.), the sheet 17¾x14 inches (45.1x35.6 cm.), with Hofer’s signature, title, and numeric notation, in pencil, on verso, and her signature, again, on the overmat. 1977
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
James welling (1951- )
Diary of Elizabeth Dixon.
Silver contact print, the image measuring 3¾x4¾ inches (9.5x12.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Welling’s signature, initials, title, and dates, in pencil, on verso. 1977; printed 1999
From a Private Collection, Buffalo, New York.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
James welling (1951- )
The Waterfall.
Silver print, the image measuring 7¾x6⅝ inches (19.7x16.8 cm.), the sheet 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), with Welling’s initials, title, date, and edition notation 25/50, in pencil, on verso. 1981
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Sol lewitt (1928-2007)
R758 Central Park (lower part).
Silver print, the image measuring 9¼x2¼ inches (23.5x5.7 cm.), with LeWitt's signature, title, and numeric notation, in ink, on verso. 1977
From a Private Collection, Buffalo, New York.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
James casebere (1953- )
Typewriter.
Silver print, the image measuring 18⅞x15 inches (47.9x38.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, the mount 24x20 inches (61x50.8 cm.), with Casebere’s signature, title, date, and edition notation 1/10, in pencil, on mount verso. 1980
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
John coplans (1920-2003)
Self Portrait (Hands spread on knees).
Silver print, the image measuring 16¾x19¾ inches (42.5x50.2 cm.), the sheet 20x24 inches (50.8x61 cm.), with Coplans’ signature, date, and edition notation 11/12, in pencil, on verso. 1985
From a Private Collection, Buffalo, New York.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Lee friedlander (1934- )
Archer.
Silver print, the image measuring 8x12 inches (20.3x30.5 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Friedlander’s signature, title, negative date, and notation A.P., in pencil, and his copyright hand stamp, on verso. 1974; printed 1978
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Lee friedlander (1934- )/jim dine (1935- )
A pair of diptychs from the portfolio entitled Photographs and Etchings.
Each sheet with a photograph by Friedlander and an etching by Dine. Silver prints, the images measuring 5⅞x8¾ and 6¾x10¼ inches (14.9x22.2 and 17.1x26 cm.), the mounts 17¾x29½ inches (45.1x74.3 cm.), with Friedlander and Dine’s signatures and edition notation 33/75, in pencil, on recto; housed in the original box together with etched title page, colophon, and statement by Dine accompanied by a photographic portrait of the two artists by Friedlander. 1969
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Abelardo morell (1948- )
Book: Portraits by Da Vinci and School of Da Vinci.
Silver print, the image measuring 22½x18 inches (57.2x45.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Morell’s signature, title, and date, in pencil, on verso. 1993
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Abelardo morell (1948- )
Camera Obscura of Santa Maria della Salute, Inside Palazzo Bedroom, Venice, Italy.
Silver print, the image measuring 22½x17¾ inches (57.2x45.1 cm.), the sheet 24x20 inches (61x50.8 cm.), with Morell’s signature, title, date, and edition notation 6/30, in pencil, on verso. 2006
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Mario cravo neto (1947-2009)
Naco Sales.
Silver print, the image measuring 15¾ inches (40 cm.) square, the sheet 22½x18½ inches (57.2x47 cm.), with Neto’s signature, date, and edition notation 1/25, in pencil, on recto, and the title, date, and edition notation 1/25, in pencil, on verso. 1996
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Luis gonzález palma (1957- )
Gustavo.
Hand-colored silver print, the image measuring 21¾x19⅜ inches (55.3x49.2 cm.), with Palma’s signature, title, date, and edition notation 12/15, in pencil, on verso. 1999
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
Luis gonzález palma (1957- )
Sin Titulo II.
Hand-toned silver print and Kodalith film overlaid aluminum foil collage with applied staples, the overall object measuring 19½x45½ inches (49.5x115.6 cm.), with Palma’s signature, title, date, and edition notation 15/15, in pencil, on verso; framed. 1998
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
John patrick dugdale (1960- )
La Sera (Genoa).
Cyanotype, the image measuring approximately 9½x7½ inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), the artist’s frame 15¼x13¼ inches (38.7x33.7 cm.); with Dugdale’s studio label with his signature, in ink, and typed title, date, and edition notation 1 of 10, on frame verso. 1997
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
John patrick dugdale (1960- )
Auto-Ritratto alla Accademia.
Cyanotype, the image measuring approximately 9½x7½ inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), the artist’s frame 15¼x13¼ inches (38.7x33.7 cm.); with Dugdale’s studio label with his signature, in ink, and typed title, date, and edition notation 2 of 10, on frame verso. 1997
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Jerry uelsmann (1934- )
Untitled (Homage to the daguerreotype).
Silver print on aluminum, the image measuring 8¼x7 inches (21x17.8 cm.), the sheet 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), with Uelsmann’s signature and date, in ink, on recto and verso. 1969
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Jerry uelsmann (1934- )
Untitled (forest carpet with angels).
Platinum print, the image measuring 23½x17⅝ inches (59.7x44.8 cm.), the mount 32x28 inches (81.3x71.1 cm.), with Uelsmann’s initials, negative date, and edition notation 12/25, in pencil, on mount recto, and his signature, title, and negative date, in ink, his copyright hand stamp with the date, in ink, and a printed by Henningsen Studio under the supervision of Uelsmann hand stamp, on mount verso. 1976; printed 1993
From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Jerry uelsmann (1934- )
Untitled (Roman tile).
Silver print, the image measuring 19¼x14⅞ inches (48.9x37.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Uelsmann’s signature, title, and date, in ink, and his copyright hand stamp with the date, in ink, on verso. 1993
From the Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York; to the Present Owner.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Hiroshi sugimoto (1948- )
E.U.R. San Pietro e Paolo - Piacentini.
Silver print, the image measuring 18½x23 inches (47x58.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, the mount 20x25 inches (50.8x71.1 cm.), with Sugimoto's blind stamp with the edition notation 5/25, on recto, and his signature, in pencil, on mount recto. 1998
From the Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York; to the Present Owner.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Adam fuss (1958- )
Untitled (smoke).
Unique silver print photogram, the image measuring 12¼x10¾ inches (32.4x27.3 cm.), the mount 15x13½ inches (38.1x34.3 cm.), with Fuss’ signature, on print verso, and the numeric notation 994, in pencil, on mount verso; with a Cheim & Read gallery label on frame verso. 2000
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Robert parkeharrison (1968- )/shana parkeharrison (1964- )
Earthcoat.
Oversize silver print with acrylic paint and varnishes, the image measuring 64x52 inches (162.6x132.1 cm.), flush mounted to a wood frame, with both ParkeHarrisons’ signatures, and the title, date, and edition notation 4/5, in pencil, on an affixed label, on frame verso. 2002
From the Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, New York; to the Present Owner.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Marco breuer (1966- )
Untitled (study).
Unique exposed and scratched chromogenic print, the image measuring 13½x10½ inches (34.3x26.7 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Breuer's signature, title, and date, in pencil, on verso. 2002
Acquired by the Present Owner from Peirogi Gallery, New York in 2007.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Alison rossiter (1953- )
Kodak Kodabrom, expired July 1941, processed 2011.
Unique silver print, the image measuring 5x7 inches (12.7x17.8 cm.), with Rossiter’s signature, title, and date, in pencil, on verso; with a Stephen Bulger Gallery label on frame verso. 2011
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Christian marclay (1955- )
Pokkaa Pok.
Photogravure on chine collé, the image measuring 12½x8 inches (31.8x20.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, the mount 16x11 inches (40.6x27.9 cm.), with Marclay's signature, date, and edition notation 13/25, in pencil, on mount verso; with the Fraenkel Gallery label on frame verso. 2011
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Patrick faigenbaum (1954- )
Untitled (Florentine family).
Silver print, the image measuring 15½ inches (39.4 cm.) square, the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Faigenbaum’s signature, date, and edition notation 2/15, in ink, on recto. 1984
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Larry sultan (1946-2009)
Los Angeles, Early Evening, from Pictures from Home.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 15x20 inches (38.1x50.8 cm.). 1986
Gifted by Larry Sultan to the Present Owner.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Catherine opie (1961- )
Untitled #12.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 19⅛x15⅛ inches (48.6x38.4 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), the aluminum mount 24¼x20¼ inches (61.6x51.4 cm.); with Opie’s signature, in ink, and the printed title, date, and edition notation 2/5 and 2APs, on a gallery label, on the frame verso. 1999
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Lalla essaydi (1956- )
Converging Territories #13.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 29x35 inches (73.7x88.9 cm.), the sheet 32x38 inches (81.3x96.5 cm.), face mounted to acrylic and flush mounted to aluminum; accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity issued by the Schneider Gallery with Essaydi’s signature, title, print date, and edition notation 9/15, in ink. 2003; printed 2004
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Alec soth (1969- )
Monica, Warsaw.
Archival pigment print, the image measuring 25x20 inches (63.5x50.8 cm.), the sheet 33x27 inches (83.8x68.6 cm.); accompanied by a label with Soth’s signature, in ink, and the typed title, dates, and edition notation 10/30. 2018; printed 2020
Published by CITYarts in consortium with Benefit Print Project.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Joel greenberg (1947- )
Brooklyn Bridge.
Oversize silver print, the image measuring 48x60 inches (121.9x152.4 cm.), flush mounted to board; the original black artist's frame slightly larger. 1983
This photo was part of a One Man Show commemorating the Centennial of the Brooklyn Bridge in May 1983 (Marymount Manhattan College, May 3 - May 29th, 1983). The exhibition was sponsored by a grant from Manufacturers Hanover Trust.
The oversize photo was printed by the photographer in 1983 and uniquely mounted and wrapped by him on board, then framed. Additional photos are available on request.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Julius shulman (1910-2009)/juergen nogai (1953- )
Disney Hall, Frank Gehry.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Shulman’s and Nogai’s signatures, in ink, and their copyright label with the date, on verso. 2006
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Michael wolf (1954-2019)
Night #1, Hong Kong.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 27x34 inches (68.6x86.4 cm.), the sheet 34x40 inches (86.4x101.6 cm.), with Wolf’s signature, in ink, and his copyright, title, date, and edition notation 1/9 + 2 APs, on a label, and with a Robert Koch Gallery label, on mount verso. 2005
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Vernacular Photography
(japan–tokyo, kyoto, and more)
A lovely Japanese album with approximately 50 hand-colored photographs depicting geishas, lush landscapes, busy streets, and flowering gardens.
Including vibrant street scenes and peaceful landscapes of Tokyo, Nikko, Yokohama, Osaka, Kyoto, and others, as well as occupational scenes, exquisite temples, elegant portraits of geishas, blooming gardens, and Mount Fuji. Hand-colored albumen prints, the images measuring approximately 7⅞x10 inches (20x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, about half with captions in the negative; each separated by original tissue guards. Oblong 4to, with a highly decorative painted and gilt lacquer front cover with a bird and floral motif and a black lacquer back cover with a seascape and Mount Fuji in gilt highlights, chipping in upper left of back cover; refurbished leather backstrip; all edges gilt. 1890s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
(india & ceylon [sri lanka])
An album with over 90 photographs depicting a German man’s trip through Agra, Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta, Ceylon, and more.
A carefully documented album of India and Ceylon at the turn of the century, including individual and family portraits, a snake charmer in Benares, street scenes from Bombay to Calcutta and Madras to Delhi, the extraordinary Elephanta Caves in Bombay, stunning views of mosques and temples, beautiful scenes of the Taj Mahal, the ruins at Lucknow, rickshaws and seascapes in Colombo, a few garden images in Lahore, and much more.
Silver prints, the images measuring 3¾x4¾ inches (9.5x12.1 cm.), and one slightly smaller, and the reverse, each image inserted into album pages recto/verso with two photographs per page, and with a caption in German or English, in ink, below the image. 8vo, mustard cloth with a red border; inscribed in German, in ink, on the front pastedown; board slipcase. 1903
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
James mudd (1821-1906)
Portrait of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Albumen print, the image measuring 9⅜x7⅜ inches (23.8x18.7 cm.), the mount 19¼x14¼ inches (49x36 cm.), with the date "Taken May 1857," in ink, in a period hand, on verso. 1861
WITH--Two portraits of the same seated figure. Albumen prints, the images measuring 9x7 inches (22.9x17.8 cm.), the mounts 13x10 inches (33x25.4 cm.). Circa 1860
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
(artists)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in his Paris workshop with a nude model in front of his canvas “Salon de la rue des Moulins.”
Silver print, the image measuring 6¼x9¼ inches (15.9x23.5 cm.). 1894; printed circa 1920
From the Collection of Bernard Karpel, the former chief librarian at the Museum of Modern Art; to the Present Owner.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Alexander hesler (1823-1895)/george b. ayres (1829-1905)
Portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
Sepia-toned silver print, the image measuring 9½x7½ inches (24.2x19.1 cm.), the mount 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), with Ayres’ blind stamp with his copyright and print date, on print recto, and his credit, copyright, and the notation Philadelphia, in ink, and a Property of American Book Company hand stamp, on mount verso. 1860; printed 1894
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
(presidential portrait)
A cabinet card portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, by George Rockwood.
Albumen print, the image measuring 5½x3¾ inches (14x9.5 cm.), the cabinet card mount 6½x4¼ inches (16.5x11.4 cm.), with Rockwood’s printed credit, title, and copyright, on mount recto, and a reproduction rights hand stamp with permission given to the American Book Company, and the title and date, in ink, on mount verso. 1898
Estimate
$600 – $800
(women’s suffrage–u.s. & england)
A group of five photographs depicting marches (2), a Chicago polling location, a portrait of Emmeline Pankhurst, and the burning of a station in Saunderton, England.
Silver prints, the images measuring 4⅝x6½ to 6½x8½ inches (11.7x16.5 to 16.5x21.6 cm.), one mounted, one with a caption in the negative, and each with the Culver Pictures hand stamp, label, and/or bar code, and four with short notations, in pencil, on print or mount verso. 1913-16
Estimate
$1,800 – $2,200
(african americana–cornelius m. battey)
Portrait of Robert Russa Moton, President of the Tuskegee Institute 1915-35, by Battey.
Silver print, the image measuring 8x5 inches (20.3x12.7 cm.), the mount 11x8 inches (27.9x20.3 cm.), with the Tuskegee Institute Photographic Division blind stamp with Battey’s credit on print recto, descriptive notations, in pencil, on mount recto, and a Culver Pictures hand stamp and descriptive label, in pencil, on mount verso. Circa 1923
Cornelius M. Battey was an accomplished photographer well-known for his portraits of prominent black Americans. His work appeared in Civil Rights publications of the era, including “The Crisis,” “The Messenger,” and “Oppottunity,” beginning in the 1910s, and circulated widely on postcards. In 1916 he founded and became director of the Photography Division at the Tuskegee Institute.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
(african americana–music)
William Grant Still going over the score of his newly composed Suite for Violin with Louis Kaufman.
Silver press print, the image measuring 8¾x7 inches (22.2x17.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the Culver Pictures hand stamp (twice), label, barcode, newspaper clipping, and descriptive label, on verso. Circa 1930
Estimate
$600 – $900
(african americana–new york city)
“Don’t Ride Here!” Harlem bus boycott led by orchestra leader Don Redman and women from the chorus at the Apollo Theater.
Silver press print, the image measuring 7⅝x9⅜ inches (19.4x23.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the Culver Pictures hand stamp (four times), Culver bar code, various notations, in pencil, and two newspaper clippings, on verso. 1941
The newspaper clipping reads: “Harlem boycott of the bus lines got a new convert yesterday. Don Redman, famed orchestra leader, showed up on the picket line – accompanied by a bevy of beauties from the chorus at the Apollo Theater. Leaders of the boycott movement vow they’ll carry on until Negroes get jobs as chauffeurs and mechanics on the bus lines that run up to Harlem. The Negro consumer strike began as soon as the Transport Workers Unions strike ended.”
Estimate
$600 – $900
(st. louis world’s fair)
The World’s Fair St. Louis 1904 Official Souvenir Playing Cards.
Complete deck of 52 cards (plus the Joker and title cards), with vignetted reproductions of photographs celebrating the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The images depict different individuals from cultures around the world, architectural shots of participating country and state’s fair structures, and monuments erected for the event. Original gilt-lettered boards slipcase. St. Louis: Samuel Cupples Envelope Co., 1904
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
(chicago world’s fair)
An album entitled A Century of Progress, International Exposition, Chicago 1933-34 with 50 photographs by Kaufmann and Fabry.
Presentation copy to S.L. Avery, “In Grateful Acknowledgement of valuable support.” Containing images of buildings, foreign pavilions, villages, and various scenes of the fair grounds. Warm-toned silver prints, the images measuring approximately 11x8 inches (27.9x20.3 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto only, each with a caption, in pencil, on mount recto. Folio, gilt-lettered blue morocco; 1934
WITH–(KAUFMANN AND FABRY.) A Century of Progress, Publicity Division Composite. Silver print, the image measuring 10x13½ inches (25.4x34.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Kaufmann and Fabry’s credit, title, and date, in the negative, and the printed photographer’s credit, title, and date, again, on recto. 1934
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
(san francisco earthquake & fire)
Large panorama by R.J. Waters entitled The Burning City, San Francisco, 10 a.m. April 18th, 1906.
Oversize panoramic silver print, the image measuring 8½x51½ inches (21.6x130.8 cm.), the sheet 11x54 inches (27.9x137.2 cm.), with R.J. Waters’ credit, title, and date, in the negative, and printed identifying notations, on recto. 1906
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
(san francisco earthquake)
A collection of more than 30 photographs documenting the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake in the Bay Area.
The archive includes a group of 7 photographs of San Francisco (including a bird’s-eye panoramic shot) that appear to be from the Belle-Oudry studio in Oakland; a selection of 12 mounted photographs, most of which are captioned and include images of Stanford University; and the remaining showing the structural devastation throughout the city, many with a credit or notations from a Dr. F.W. Stapff. Silver prints, the images measuring 5½x7½ inches (14x19.1 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, one 8x9 inches (20.3x23 cm.), 12 on black paper mounts 7x9 inches (17.8x22.9 cm.), many with captions, in pencil and in ink, on recto or verso, and a few with captions in the negative. 1906
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
(western united states–mining)
A handsome and immersive album with approximately 100 photographs showing numerous Western and Southwestern landscapes and cities.
Possibly related to a mining business, the album’s stunning imagery includes visits to and imagery related to Native individuals; an image of an Asian man and small child; horseback trips through rugged terrain (featuring enormous cacti); visits to what may be mining towns (including Ray, Arizona, which was known for its copper mine); Salt Lake City; the Spokane train station; massive train bridges and feats of train track engineering; lush Western forests; and city street scenes, all rendered in crisp and compelling detail. The album also appears to show travels to Mexico. Silver prints, the images measuring 5x7¾ inches (12.7x19.7 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, mounted neatly recto only to black paper pages. Oblong folio, leather, front cover and backstrip perished/detached, but the binding intact. 1910-15
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
(panama canal construction)
A small archive of approximately 60 photographs documenting operations at the Panama Canal.
The photographs documenting labor and construction at the docks of the Panama Canal. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 7x9¼ inches (17.8x23.5 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, three 3¼x4½ inches (8.2x11.4 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, nearly all with a technical caption either typed or in the negative, many including a date, on recto or verso. 1936-38
WITH--Four pieces of ephemera. Including a paper titled "Native Lumber" presented to the Engineer's Club of the Canal Zone in 1919; a commemorative pamphlet titled "A History of the Panama Canal," 1939; a pamphlet detailing an expansion project called "The Third Locks Project," 1941; and a publication titled Safety Zone from 1943 (documenting accident rates and "The Hit Parade:" workers who have gone a year or more without an accident).
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
(chicago–construction)
An album with 34 photographs of subway construction views in downtown Chicago, including 10 two-part panoramas.
Includes detailed scenes of the construction of the Van Buren St. commuter rail station. With images of workers implementing the “cut-and-cover” subway building system including shots of open excavation sites, men building the tunnel structure with wood and steel materials, and the final product of enclosed, tiled hallways. Silver prints, the images measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, linen backed, with captions and dates in the negative, and a few with an Illinois Central Railroad Co. hand stamp or a date hand stamp, on mount verso. Oblong 4to, leatherette; twin-bolt binding. 1924
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
(new york city)
An oversized panorama entitled New York City: America’s Wonder Metropolis.
Panoramic silver print, the image measuring 8¾x56 inches (22.2x146.2 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with a photographer’s credit, the title, and identifying notations in the negative, and a National Photo & News Service hand stamp, on verso. Circa 1946
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
(upstate new york power)
An album documenting construction of the Amsterdam, New York Steam Station with approximately 40 photographs.
The series of precise and detailed images show the building rising with a steel beams, and also includes interior shots with workers and the massive equipment used to generate steam power. Amsterdam, developed on both sides of the Mohawk River, was then a major industrial and commercial center. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 11½x7¾ inches (29.2x19.7 cm.), and the reverse, each with a date and numeric notation, and 6 with the location, in ink, on recto, and a couple with a caption, also in ink, or a credit from a local photographer, on verso; bound with a single two-pronged fastener and a tied cord. 1921
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
(urban transportation)
A set of 10 handsome photographs of trolley cars made by the J.G. Brill Company.
Showing both the exterior of the cars as well as the mechanisms and fixings, all with a small J.G. Brill Company sign in the image. Based in Philadelphia, Brill was, at its height, the largest manufacturer of streetcars and interurban cars in the country. Printing-out paper prints, the images measuring 9½x7½ inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), and the reverse, three with the notation “School Car,” a number, and a date, in the negative, and four with a New York photographer’s hand stamp and four with notations, in pencil or ink, on verso. Circa 1900
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
(manhattan bridge–new york city)
A group of 10 photographs depicting the view from Brooklyn Tower and construction of the colonnade and tracks, as well as an infamous automobile accident.
A series of construction images featuring the tracks and bridge approach. Four of the photographs depict the Ruppert Auto truck incident of 1913, in which a truck hit a bump in the road by Manhattan Bridge and crashed into the construction of the underground subway. Cyanotypes, the images measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and the reverse, each with a numeric notation in the negative, six with a caption and date, in ink, four with the Manhattan Bridge Brooklyn Plaza hand stamp, and one with a numbered Supreme Court hand stamp, on recto, two with the caption and date, in ink or pencil, on verso. 1913-22
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
(transportation in america)
A group of approximately 36 photographs documenting a traveling exhibition of dioramas dramatizing the history of transportation in the United States.
This quirky set includes photographs of tableaux meant to illustrate various means of transportation used throughout American history, starting with Native Americans and including covered wagons, the Pony Express (featuring Buffalo Bill on horseback), stage coaches, steamboats (one showing Robert Fulton’s “Clermont” and another the race between the “Robert E. Lee” and the “Natchez”), the “Dewitt Clinton” train (the first to carry passengers in New York State), the Kitty Hawk, and an early automobile. Five photographs show the team constructing the dioramas and two show scenes from American history; two pamphlets from the exhibition accompany the group. Silver prints, the images 6¾x9¾ to 11x13¾ inches (17.1x24.7 to 27.9x34.9 cm.), many sheets slightly larger, a few with captions, in ink, on recto. 1930
Estimate
$600 – $900
(charlotte brooks–los angeles)
An archive of approximately 140 aerial snapshots of Los Angeles taken from a helicopter for Lookmagazine.
The detailed photographs depict bird’s-eye views of mansions and palm tree lined streets of the Hollywood and Beverly Hills areas, the sprawling coast lines of Santa Monica, orchards in the San Fernando Valley, architectural shots of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, the Griffith Observatory, and St. Mary’s College, and considerably more. Silver prints, the images measuring 3¾x4¾ inches (9.5x12.1 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, each with Brooks’ credit, date, and the notation LA, in pencil, and some with identifying captions, in pencil and ink, on verso. 1952
Charlotte Brooks (1918-2014) was a photojournalist best known for her work at “Look” magazine where she worked from 1951-1971. Early in her photographic career she assisted the artists Barbara Morgan and Gjon Mili in New York City. Her work was noticed by Roy Stryker, and she was asked to join his project at Standard Oil of New Jersey documenting America at home during World War II. When the project ended, Arthur Rothstein introduced her to executives at “Look” where she eventually became the only woman on the permanent photography staff until its demise in 1971.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Harold edgerton (1903-1990)
Milk Drop Series.
Ferrotyped silver print, the image measuring 9½x7½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the “PROF Harold EDGErTON and publisher” hand stamp, the International News Photo hand stamp, and an International News Photo caption label, on verso. Circa 1937; printed 1939
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Harold edgerton (1903-1990)
Golf swing.
Ferrotyped silver print, the image measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Edgerton’s credit hand stamp, an A.G. Spalding hand stamp, Acme Newspictures and N.E.A. hand stamps, a typed caption label, and a numeric notation, in pencil, on verso. Late 1930s
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
(holy smoke!)
A selection of 27 photographs of people and animals smoking from glamorous flappers to pipe-smoking canines.
A charming group, nearly half of which with an Underwood & Underwood credit, of both humorous and cultural images of people smoking, including Native American peace pipes, glamorous actresses posed with cigarette holders, cigarette-smoking soldiers, European pipe smokers, Korean men with long pipes, and dogs dangling cigarettes and pipes. Silver prints, the images measuring 7⅞x4⅛ to 10x8 inches (20x10.5 to 25.4x20.3 cm.), most with a press or photographer hand stamp and/or date hand stamp, and more than half with newspaper clippings or caption labels, on verso. 1920-80
Estimate
$250 – $350
David “chim” seymour (1911-1956)
Old woman at a land reform meeting, near Badajoz, Estremadura, Spain.
Silver press print, the image measuring 9x7¼ inches (22.9x18.4 cm.), with Seymour’s “Photo Chim” credit and date hand stamps, and Robert Capa’s credit hand stamp, the caption, in pencil, in an unknown hand, and a PIX publishing label, on verso. 1936
The caption on verso reads: “A face that reveals the suffering and horror of the Spanish Civil War.”
From a Private Midwest Collector.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Robert capa (1913-1954)
D-Day Invasion, Omaha Beach, Normandy Coast.
Silver press print, the image measuring 6x9¼ inches (15.2x23.5 cm.), the sheet 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), with a Daily Pictures hand stamp with notations, in pencil, on verso. 1944; printed early 1960s
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Walter rosenblum (1919-2006)
D-Day Rescue, Normandy Beach.
Silver print, the image measuring 7x9½ inches (17.8x24.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, flush mounted, with Rosenblum’s signature, title, and address, and additional notations, in ink, on mount verso. 1944; printed 1960s
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Robert capa (1913-1954)
German soldier captured by American forces, Omaha Beach, Normandy.
Silver press print, the image measuring 4¾ inches (12.1 cm.) square, the sheet slightly larger, with Capa’s Life Photo hand stamp, Passed for Publication and numeric hand stamps, a typed label with Capa’s credit and a title, and various notations, in blue pencil, on verso. 1944
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Joe rosenthal (1911-2006)
Raising of the Flag on Iwo Jima.
Silver print, the image measuring 13⅜x10½ inches (34x26.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Rosenthal's signature, inscription, and date, in ink, on recto. 1945
WITH--Iwo Jima by Associated Press Photographer Joe Rosenthal, a booklet with 19 reproductions of Rosenthal's photographs at Iwo Jima along with descriptive captions.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
(wwii–yalta and atlantic conferences)
A group of 3 photographs, two of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Josef Stalin at Yalta and one of FDR’s and Churchill’s 1941 Atlantic Conference.
Silver press prints, the images measuring 9½x14⅝ inches (24.1x37.1 cm.), and slightly larger, the sheets slightly larger, two with retouching, on recto, and each with a newspaper clipping and date hand stamp, on verso. 1941 and 1945
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
(eva perón)
A collection of 5 press prints depicting the First Lady of Argentina who championed labor rights and founded the Female Peronist Party.
Silver press prints, the images measuring 6½8¾ inches (16.5x22.2 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, four with a El Día hand stamp, and one with several El Laborista hand stamps (with the date 6-4-49) and an affixed typed caption, in Spanish, on verso. 1949
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
(cows)
Album titled Otco Farms, Strongsville, Ohio, Pure Bred Holsteins with approximately 57 photographs.
A series of handsome cows, some singly and others grouped together in small herds, interspersed with information from the farm listing individual cows by name and their pedigree. Silver prints, the images measuring 3x4 to 5x7 inches (7.6x10.2 to 12.7x17.8 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, inserted into plastic sleeves, some with a photographer’s credit in the negative, and each with the cow’s typed name and sometimes additional specifications or prizes on a small sheet mounted below the image. 4to, gilt-lettered leatherette binder; three-ring binding; with two printed sheets and two typed sheets listing various cow’s specifications also inserted into plastic sleeves. Circa 1948
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
(window displays)
A group of 16 photographs of posed, fashionably dressed mannequins, some with seasonal decorations.
A charming group of photographs taken by Deer Park, Ohio photographer Frank Lacher of chic, mid-20th century fashions, including dressing gowns, Perma-Lift lingerie, elegant hats, a Western-themed crochet display, classic skirt suits, and one display related to the Girl Scouts. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and the reverse, one 4½x6½ inches (11.4x16.5 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, three with Frank Lacher’s credit hand stamp, on verso; a couple duplicates. 1940s-50s
Estimate
$600 – $900
(fashion)
A group of approximately 40 photographs of stunning women’s fashion designs by Howard Greer.
The group includes smart skirt suits, elegant chiffon evening gowns, striking cocktail dresses, and dresses with draped necklines, some paired with stylish hats. The group including three photographs of Greer and his home and three photographs of his fashion in window displays at Hess Brothers. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 9½x7½ inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), a couple smaller, and the reverse, one with an inscription “to Howard,” in ink, on recto, approximately 9 with the photographer’s credit hand stamp, one with a Howard Greer Custom Originals hand stamp, and two with typed caption labels, on verso. 1950s
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
(cameras)
A set of approximately 125 photographs related to Jen camera flashes and other products.
Includes “beauty shots” of Jen flashes on numerous cameras, including Leicas, Rolleflex, Polaroid Land cameras, and others. Also with a series of from the National Photographic Show’s “Miss Jen-Dip” of 1954 demonstrating how to dip flash bulbs in jen dip, as well as Jen Products, their New York sales windows, and a trade show booth. Silver prints, most of the images measuring approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, about 30 measuring 4½x6½ inches (11.4x16.5 cm.), and smaller, and the reverse, most photographs inserted into plastic sleeves; with several duplicates and some prints sleeved with negatives. 4tos, red binders; three-ring binding. Early 1950s
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
(commercial photography)
A collection of approximately 100 photos by a talented commercial photographer from the Chicago suburb Maywood, Illinois.
A portfolio documenting the photographer’s most important commercial projects, the set includes images of suburban streets, home interiors, a dog, a Budweiser distribution enterprise, bars, accident documentation, a manufacturer of some kind, and more. Silver prints, the images measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, housed in plastic sleeves recto/verso, most with a combination of his hand stamp (Mischnick), his business (Camera-Graphics, with the Maywood, IL address), numeric stamps, and/or date stamps, on verso. Folio, black leatherette, lightly worn. 1949-54
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
(furniture)
A group of approximately 36 photographs of sleek, mid-century modern furniture.
The images depicting furniture pieces from Ramseur Furniture Company in Ramseur, North Carolina. The group includes images of furniture sets in situ as well as photographs of specific pieces, including wooden dressers and buffets with crisp lines and geometric inlay, organic nesting tables, elegant bedroom sets, minimalist living rooms, geometric dining sets, and functional workspaces. Two of the photographs depicting a woman in the setting. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 7¼x9¼ inches (18.4x23.5 cm.) and the reverse, some larger, two with the company name and furniture dimensions, on recto, and approximately 6 with typed labels with the furniture description, dimensions, pricing, and company information, on verso; a couple duplicates. Circa 1950s
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
(roadside signage)
Approximately 60 photographs of bold, graphic signs, mostly neon, on banks, grocery stores, hotels, and more.
A mini archive of dynamic and attention-grabbing signage made by a variety of businesses and appearing in situ all across the country. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 7¼x9¼ inches (18.4x23.5 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, 38 with a caption, including the sign maker and location, in the negative (a few with small adhered labels); includes a couple duplicates and a couple images of billboards. 1960s
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
(playing cards)
A complete deck of 36 Russian photographic prison playing cards, all featuring titillating nude women.
Silver prints, each card measuring 3⅛2⅛ inches (7.9x5.4 cm.) overall, the diamonds and hearts hand-colored with pink. 1950s
Most Russian card games employ either the 36 card (games such as Durak) or the 32 card (particularly Preferans) decks.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
(crime–pacific northwest)
A group of approximately 250 mugshots and identification images of suspected and convicted persons, many in Washington and Oregon.
A group of photographs depicting individuals suspected or sentenced for crimes, including drug usage, manslaughter, burglary, forgery, and more, likely from a detective agency. The images include typical mugshots with the inmate number, personal portraits of individuals that have been used for identification purposes, and full cards for escaped inmates or parole violators, some with wanted rewards. The group mostly depicts men but includes a small group of women. Silver prints, the images measuring 1¾x1½ to 6x3¼ inches (4.4x3.8 to 15.2x8.3 cm.), some double images, many stapled or mounted to index cards, and others on carte-postale or Bertillon cards, nearly all with numeric notations on the print or mount recto, a many with handwritten or typewritten information on the suspect, on the print or mount verso. 1910s-30s
From the Collection of author and historian John Binder.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
(american crime)
A group of 200 mugshots depicting men picked up in Philadelphia for a range of offences, many for minor gambling crimes, as well as some for theft, narcotics, assault, and even murder.
The men ranging in age from their early 20s to their late 50s, many staring blankly into the camera. Silver prints, the images measuring 3½x4½ inches (8.9x11.4 cm.), nearly all with a “Criminal Identification Unit Police Department Phila., Penn.” hand stamp and the typed (a few handwritten in ink) subject’s name, address, crime, and identifying characteristics, on verso (one is blank); in a contemporary binder. 1948-64
From the Collection of author and historian John Binder.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
(automotive wrecks)
A group of approximately 63 photographs depicting catastrophic car collisions, including two images of airplane crashes.
A group of professional images of car accidents mostly in California and the Pacific Northwest, depicting overturned vehicles, side-swiped cars, mangled front ends, totaled vehicles, a truck trailer ablaze, and images of first responders on scene, including lifesaving efforts and groups of onlookers. Silver prints, the images mostly measuring 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4), eight approximately 5x7 inches (12.7x17.8 cm.), more than half of the photographs with the photographer’s credit hand stamp or credit, in pencil, and a few with the date or notations, in pencil, on verso, approximately 20 with hole punches; in a contemporary binder. 1930s-70s
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
(jfk assassination)
A set of two color snapshots, one showing President and Mrs. Kennedy with Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie in the motorcade just minutes before the assassination.
The second snapshot showing Vice President Lyndon Johnson and his wife Lady Bird Johnson, who were riding two cars behind the President. Chromogenic prints, the images measuring 3x4½ inches (7.6x11.4 cm.), the sheets slightly larger. 1963
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
(jfk assassination)
A set of more than 80 Polaroids made from a television screen, most documenting President John F. Kennedy’s funeral.
With images that depict Jackie Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, JFK Jr., and Caroline Kennedy, as well as Lyndon B. Johnson. Exhaustive, the set is comprised of numerous images of the procession of JFK’s flag-draped coffin through the Washington, D.C. streets and the funeral itself, including Jackie’s iconic black veil. A portion of the set also documents the surrounding November events, including images showing Lee Harvey Oswald’s death at the hands of Jack Ruby, and more. Polaroids, the images measuring 2⅞x3¾ inches (7.3x9.5 cm.), and the reverse. 1963
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
(jfk assassination)
Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald, Dallas.
Ferrotyped silver press print, the image measuring 9⅝x13⅛ inches (24.4x33.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with date stamps (including one from 1968), a press clipping, and various notations, in red grease pencil, on verso. 1963
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
(nulcear explosion)
A group of 4 large color photographs depicting various American atomic bomb tests in the 1950s, three at the Nevada Test Site and one at Bikini Atoll.
The images include: Operation Upshot-Knothole, Grable, Nevada Test Site, May 1953, Area 5; Operation Teapot, Hornet, Nevada Test Site, March 1955; the infamous Castle Bravo test, Operation Castle, Bikini Atoll, February 1954; Operation Hardtack II, Socorro, Nevada Test Site, October 1958 (one of the last before a brief international testing moratorium). Chromogenic prints, the images measuring 24x20 inches (61x50.8 cm.), and the reverse, each with the operation name and date, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1953-58
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
(to the moon)
A group of 12 photographs of the lunar surface, all apparently made by Apollo 16.
A detailed and sharp set of photographs of the moon. Silver prints, the images measuring 10 inches (25.4 cm.) square, with notations in the negative, including four with the Apollo 16 caption and date. 1972
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
(ussr space missions)
A collection of 26 large photographs depicting the Soviet Unions’ progress in the Space Race throughout the 1960s-80s.
Including images of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, after the Vostok 1 flight, several missions to the Salyut 7 space station, snaps of astronauts before, during, and after leaving Earth, views of Earth from space, and more. Chromogenic (14) and silver (12) prints, the images measuring 15½x11½ inches (39.4x29.2 cm.), and the reverse, one with a typed caption label, in Russian, on recto, two with a Fotokhronika Moscow, USSR hand stamp, and most with a written caption, in English, in ink, on verso. 1960s-80s; printed 1980s
Estimate
$400 – $600
(satellite views of earth–landsat 4)
Group of 12 color photos of Earth from space, including aerial views of NYC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and more.
Including views of New York City; Los Angeles (2); San Francisco (3); Salton Sea, California; Death Valley, California; Detroit Michigan and neighbor Windor, Ontario (2); Washington, D.C.; and Boston. Each print with stunning simulated color, and displaying graphic, textural detail. Chromogenic prints, the images measuring 14¾x15½ inches (37.5x39.4 cm.), one slightly larger, the sheets 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), nearly all with printed captions, including the Landsat mission number, location, date, and specific coordinates and altitude of the satellite, and two with a printed caption label with the location and date, on recto. 1982
The Landsat program is the longest-running operation for collecting satellite imagery of the Earth, and was run with technology developed by the Hughes Aircraft Company. At the time these images were made the program was facilitated in part by the private sector operation Earth Observation Satellite Company and is now a joint NASA/USGS program.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Michael light (1963- )
Stratocumulus Clouds 4,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, from the project Full Moon.
The original NASA photograph attributed to Ronald Evans , Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972. Direct-digital chromogenic development print from a NASA color transparency, the image measuring 24 inches (61 cm.) square; a label with Light’s signature, print date, and edition notation 4/50, in ink, and the printed title, negative date, and additional caption and printing information, on frame verso. 1999
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Malcolm browne (1931-2012)
Burning Monk, South Vietnam.
Wire service press photo, the image measuring 7x9 inches (17.8x22.9 cm.), the sheet 7½x10¾ inches (19.1x27.3 cm.), with the caption and date in the image. 1963; printed circa 1975
Estimate
$600 – $900
Eddie adams (1933-2004)
General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing Viet Cong Prisoner Nguyen Van Lém, Saigon (with Adams inset at right).
Wire service press photo, the image measuring 6x9¼ inches (15.2x23.5 cm.), the sheet 7⅝x10 inches (19.4x25.4 cm.), with the caption and date in the image. 1968; printed 1969
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
John filo (1948- )
A sequence of three photographs from the Kent State shooting, including his Pulitzer Prize-winning image of Mary Ann Vecchio leaning over the body of Jeffrey Miller.
Silver press prints, the images measuring 7⅝x6 to 6¼x9 inches (19.4x15.2 to 15.9x22.9 cm.), the sheets 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), two with the caption, in the negative, and each with a Houston Chronicle Library hand stamp and subject, in ink, one with caption and one with a newspaper clipping, on verso. 1970; one printed circa 1990
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
(o.j. simpson’s white bronco)
A white Ford Bronco, driven by Al Cowlings and carrying O.J. Simpson, is trailed by police cars as it travels on a southern California freeway.
Wire service press photo, the image measuring 4¾x8 inches (12x20.3 cm.), the sheet 7x8½ inches (17.8x21.6 cm.), with the photographer’s (Joseph Vallarin) credit, caption, and date in the image. 1994