Fine Photographs
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Deborah Rogal
Director, Photographs & Photobooks
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Specialist, Photographs & Photobooks
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(212) 254-4710 ext. 66
Bridget Fay
Cataloguer & Client Relations, Photographs & Photobooks
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(212) 254-4710 ext. 64
George S. Lowry
Chairman
Nicholas D. Lowry
President, Principal Auctioneer
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Andrew M. Ansorge
Vice President & Controller
Alexandra Mann-Nelson
Chief Marketing Officer
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Todd Weyman
Vice President & Director, Prints & Drawings
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Nigel Freeman
Vice President & Director, African American Art
Rick Stattler
Vice President & Director, Books & Manuscripts
Administration
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Vice President & Controller
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Client Accounting
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Operations Manager
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Communications Manager
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Nineteenth Century
Francis frith (1822-1898)
Three striking photographs of Egypt.
Albumen prints, the images measuring 6¼x8⅞ inches (15.8x22.5 cm.), and slightly smaller, flush mounted, each with Frith’s credit in the negative and one with the date in the negative as well. Circa 1857
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
(egypt)
An album featuring approximately 100 iconic photographs by the Zangaki Brothers and Pascal Sébah, including the Pyramids and other landmarks, the Nile, Cairo scenes, portraits, and more.
The album is split about evenly between Zangaki and Sébah; about 15 photographs do not include a credit. Includes Sébah’s detailed and picturesque portraiture, sweeping views of the Pyramids and Sphinx, other ancient Egyptian architecture and artifacts, tombs, as well as scenes of everyday life, such as street shops, crocodiles, and interiors. Albumen prints, the images measuring about 8x10¾ inches (20.3x27.3 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, mounted recto/verso, most with credit and caption in the negative. Oblong folio, ½ leather over cloth. 1870s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
(new zealand)
Album with approximately 89 photographs of the changing New Zealand landscape and Maori portraits.
Including detailed and diverse photographs by Iles Photo, the Burton Brothers, Wheeler & Son, Josiah Martin, Ring Photo, and others, with photographs of glacial expeditions, ceremonial dances, artifacts and architecture, stagecoaches, topographic landscapes, and various city views. Albumen prints, the images measuring 7¾x5½ to 7¼x9 inches (19.7x14 to 18.4x22.9 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto/verso to black paper pages, many with the photographer’s credit and captions in the negative. Oblong 4to, gilt-stamped leather, corners worn, contents loose. 1880s
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Felice beato (1832-1909)
Panorama in four parts of Odin Bay, China, showing a military encampment and clipper ships.
Albumen prints from wet-collodion glass negatives, the images measuring 7⅜x10¾ to 7⅜x11½ inches (18.7x27.3 to 18.7x29.2 cm.). June 21st, 1860
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
John thomson (1837-1921)
Three views of Hong Kong Harbor.
Albumen prints, the images measuring 9½x13 inches (24.1x33 cm.), and slightly smaller, one mount 10½x14 inches (26.7x35.6 cm.), and a second 9⅜x12¾ inches (23.8x32.4 cm.), both of the mounted photographs with a period caption in ink on mount recto. 1868-80
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
William saunders (1832-1892)
Two women, Shanghai.
Oval albumen print, the image measuring 8x6 inches (20.3x15.2 cm.), the sheet 10¾x8¼ inches (27.3x21 cm.), the original mount 12x9 inches (30.5x23 cm.), with a caption “Femmes Chinoise” in pencil on mount recto. 1868-72
Estimate
$600 – $900
Julia margaret cameron (1815-1879)
Florence [Fisher] after the manner of the Old Masters.
Albumen print, the image measuring 14⅛x10 inches (35.6x25.4 cm.), the mount 22½x18 inches (55.9x45.7 cm.), with Cameron’s signature, title, and notation “From Life Registered Photograph Copyright” in ink, and the painter G.F. Watts’ signature with the notation “I wish I could paint such a picture as this.” also in ink, on mount recto. 1872
Provenance: Witkin Gallery, New York, 1980; to the Present Owner
Cox & Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs (The J. Paul Getty Museum), p. 402, pl. 950
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
Frank meadow sutcliffe (1853-1941)
Children on the beach.
Albumen print, the image measuring 6x8 inches (15.2x20.3 cm.), flush mounted, with Sutcliffe’s initials in the negative, and his signature in pencil on mount verso. Circa 1895
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Alexander hesler (1823-1895)/george b. ayres (1829-1905)
Portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
Sepia-toned oval silver print, the image measuring 8¾x5¾ inches (22.2x14.6 cm.); in a period frame. 1860; printed circa 1910
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Andrew j. russell (1829-1902)
Rebel Caisson Destroyed by Federal Shells. At Fredericksburgh, May 3, 1863. Eight Horses Killed.
Albumen print, the image measuring 9⅛x12⅜ inches (23.2x31.4 cm.), the mount 13x18 inches (33x45.7 cm.), with a printed title label with the date and notation No. 179 on mount recto. 1863
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Made hours after a battle at Fredericksburgh, Virginia, this dramatic and haunting photograph depicts a ruined Confederate two-wheeled vehicle for artillery ammunition and its team of horses. Russell posed his companions General Herman Haupt on the left and General William Wierman Wright, a civil engineer, on the right, just past the caisson on the road. At the time, this photograph would have been as close to a journalistic battle scene image as was technically possible.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Timothy o’sullivan (1840-1882)
Group of 6 Geological Survey photographs.
Albumen prints, the images measuring approximately 8x10¾ inches (20.3x27.3 cm.), the two-toned Wheeler mounts 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), each with O’Sullivan’s printed credit, title, plate number, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Geological Survey credit and date, and the imprint of the War Department, Corps of Engineers, on mount recto. 1873-74
North Fork Cañon, Sierra Blanca Creek, Arizona * “Lost” Lakes, Near Meigs Peak, Col., Lakes 9,500 feet above sea-level * Distant View of Camp Apache, Arizona * View Near Head of Conejos River, Col. * Cooley’s Park, Sierra Blanca Range, Arizona * Snake River Canon, Idaho, View from above Shoshone Falls
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
(american cityscapes)
A group of four early photographs, comprising two street views of New York City and two of Washington D.C., including the White House.
Albumen prints, the images measuring 8⅞x11⅝ inches (22.5x29.5 cm.), and slightly smaller, the mounts 14x17 inches (35.6x43.2 cm.). Circa 1870
42nd Street near Madison Avenue, NY * East 57th Street 8, NY * Treasury Department, Washington D.C. * The White House, Washington D.C.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
(printing presses–newspapers)
A company album with compelling 33 views of the Goss Printing Press Co., Chicago, Illinois.
The album offers a testimony of metal working prowess through a minutious depiction of both the company’s workforce and machinery. It portrays scenes of the working processes, and close-ups of printing presses, all in detailed, crisply defined imagery. Aristotype prints, the images each measuring approximately 9⅞x12½ inches (25x31.8 cm.), flush mounted to linen. Oblong 4to, gilt-lettered cloth; backstrip perished, covers detached. 1897
Founded in 1885 to manufacture printing presses, Goss found a need for a large quantity of spur, worm, and spiral gears. They went on to manufacture an Automatic Gear Hobbing machine of their own design. In 1969 the firm was acquired by Rockwell International Corp. printing press division and was subsequently sold in 1996 to a new company named Goss Graphic Systems Inc.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
(a women’s college)
The Oread Collegiate Institute, one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States.
Albumen print, the image measuring 14¾x17⅞ inches (35.6x43.2 cm.), the mount 19¾x23 inches (48.3x58.4 cm.), with the photographers’ Buchholz & Hendrick printed gilt-lettered credit and title on mount recto; in a period frame. Circa 1870s-80s
The Oread Institute was built by Eli Thayer of Worcester on a piece of land known as “Goat Hill” off Main Street in 1849. The Oread offered three levels of instruction: primary, academic, and collegiate. The four-year collegiate program offered a classical, college-level curriculum and is thought to be the first institution of its kind exclusively for women in the country. It was modeled after the program at Brown University, Thayer’s alma mater. The Oread taught women students for 32 years, from 1849–1881. Laura C. Spelman, later the wife of John D. Rockefeller, and her sister Lucy M. attended Oread in 1858. It later became The Worcester Domestic Science Cooking School (1898–1904) where, it is reputed, shredded wheat was invented. The Oread was razed in 1934.
Estimate
$600 – $900
Augustine h. folsom (1846-1926)
Boston & Albany Old Colony Railroad Station.
A large image comprised of 2 conjoined albumen prints, the image measuring overall 13x27½ inches (33x70 cm.), the mount 15⅛x28⅞ inches (38.4x73.3 cm.), with the title in ink and the photographer’s credit and Roxbury address on mount recto. 1875
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
(baldwin locomotive works)
The coal-burning passenger locomotive Alexander Mitchell.
Albumen print, the image measuring 10¾x16¾ inches (27.3x42.5 cm.), the mount 17⅜x21⅞ inches (44.1x55.6 cm.), with the photographer A.H Temple's printed gilt-lettered credit and title on mount recto; in a period frame. Circa 1877
This locomotive is known as an American type, wheel arrangement is 4-4-0, and was probably built for the Lehigh Valley Railroad in the early 1870s.
Railway Officials of America (Railway Age Publishing Company, Chicago, 1877), p. 220
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
(logging)
An album titled Pacific Coast Logging and Lumber Views, Big Creek Logging Co., Knappa, Oregon & Crossett Western Lumber Co., Wauna, Oregon, with approximately 50 photographs.
An album with sharp and detailed shots depicting the various stages of logging operations, all the way from picturesque uncut forest views, to loggers posing with enormous tree trucks, to the multi-pronged transport and removal of the logs; to the mills that saw and cut the logs; as well as company officials, homes, and interior views. Silver prints, the images measuring 8x6 inches (20.3x15.2 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, one 3-part panorama 6x24¼ inches (15.2x61.6 cm.), mounted recto/verso, each with the photographer Geo. M. Weister’s credit in the negative and a gilt-lettered caption on the mount. Oblong 4to, gilt-lettered cloth; with a twin-post binding. Circa 1910
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
(americana)
A group of 25 photographs from Framingham, Massachusetts celebrating the 200th anniversary of the founding of the town.
Featuring an array of elaborately decorated parade floats from local or nearby businesses as well as homes and storefronts decked out in patriotic bunting. Printing-out paper prints, the images measuring 6x8 inches (15.2x20.3 cm.), and slightly smaller, the mounts 10x12 inches (25.4x30.5 cm.), most with local photographer Geo. W. Cochell’s blind stamp on mount recto and stamp on mount verso. 1900
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Eadweard muybridge (1830-1904)
A selection of 5 plates from the pioneering motion study series Animal Locomotion.
Collotypes, the images measuring from 7x16 to 8¾x13⅜ inches (17.8x40.6 to 22.2x34 cm.), the two-toned sheets 19x24 inches (48.3x61 cm.), with Muybridge’s letterpress credit, series title, plate number, copyright, and date on recto. 1887
Nude man walking up and down steps, pl. 125 * Woman leaning forward in dress, pl. 198 * Woman with buckets of water, pl. 403 * Four horses, pl. 648 * Man with a mule, pl. 662
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
(leaves of grass)
Portrait of Walt Whitman (1819-1892) with a butterfly.
The portrait was taken by Phillips & Taylor. Silver press print, the image measuring 4½x3 inches (11.4x7.6 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, the mount 8x5½ inches (20.3x14 cm.), with Whitman’s name in pencil in an unknown hand on mount recto, and the Culver Pictures stamps and barcode and a label with a caption in pencil, on mount verso. 1873; printed 1920s
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
(author of the communist manifesto)
Portrait of Karl Marx (1818-1883).
Portrait by John Jabez Edwin Paisley Mayall. Silver press print, the image measuring 9⅝x7½ inches (24.4x18.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the sitter’s name in pencil in an unknown hand and the Culver Pictures stamps, label, and barcode on verso. Circa 1875; printed circa 1910
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Lock & whitfield (active 1856-1894)
Four woodburytypes from “Men of Mark,” including Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Gustave Doré, and Jules Verne.
Woodburytypes, the oval images measuring approximately 4½x3⅝ inches (11.4x9.2 cm.), the mounts 10⅝x8¼ inches (27x21 cm.), with the subject’s name and the publishing and process credit printed on mount recto; accompanied by the original printed biographical caption sheets. 1877
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Napoleon sarony (1821-1896)
Portrait of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
Silver press print, the image measuring 5x4 inches (12.7x10.2 cm.), the mount 8x5½ inches (20.3x14 cm.), with the sitter’s name in pencil in an unknown hand on mount recto, and the date in pencil in an unknown hand and the Culver Pictures label, barcode, and stamp on mount verso. 1882; printed 1930s
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Early Twentieth Century American
Pierre choumoff (1872-1936)
An archive of more than 50 photographs of Auguste Rodin’s (1840-1917) sculptural works, as well as two portraits of the influential artist.
The archive includes a period album with about 30 photographs as well as a binder containing about 20 loose prints. The archive includes numerous beautifully lit and carefully composed images of Rodin’s sculptures, including fine detail and dimensional renderings of the important work. Silver prints, the images measuring 9x6¾ inches (22.9x17.1 cm.), and smaller, the sheets slightly larger, nearly all with a title of the work in ink and/or Choumoff’s stamp (some faint) on verso. Small folio, tan cloth; post binding; here the prints are mounted recto only and many are loose. Circa 1915-17
Pierre Choumoff was the last photographer Auguste Rodin worked with to document his sculptures. Rodin believed strongly in the ability of photography to disseminate his work, and the pair collaborated on 300 images. Choumoff was able to use artificial lighting to control the surfaces of the sculptures, resulting in photographs that beautifully translate the surface texture, detail, and emotive dimensions Rodin achieved. Choumoff also photographed Rodin on his deathbed.
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
(impressionism)
Portrait of Claude Monet (1840-1926) in front of two panels of one of his last works: a study of water lilies.
Silver print, the image measuring 9¼x11¾ inches (22.9x27.9 cm.), with a Musée Marmottan credit stamp and a publication date and numerous notations in ink in an unknown hand on verso. 1920s; printed 1973
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
André kertész (1894-1985)
Alexander Calder, Paris.
Silver print, the image measuring 10⅞x13¾ inches (25.4x33 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Kertész’s signature, title, and negative date in pencil on verso. 1929; printed 1978
Provenance: Sander Gallery, New York, 1979; to the Present Owner
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Martín chambi (1891-1973)
Group of 5 photographs depicting the indigenous figures and landscapes of Peru.
Silver prints on carte-postale paper (4) and one silver print, the images measuring approximately 5½x3½ inches (14x8.9 cm.), two the reverse and one slightly smaller with thin margins, one with a caption in the negative, and each with a Chambi Cuzco stamp, on verso. 1920s-40s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
(asia)
A dynamic archive of nearly 300 snapshots from China, the Philippines, and Japan.
The majority of the snapshots appear to depict the Philippines, with more than 50 depicting China, and many others Japan. At least two of the Chinese photographs include captions from Nanjing (Nanking), and several others appear to show American servicemen. The imagery shows street scenes, the Chinese military, the presence of the American military, studies of people and street life, harbors, ships, and formal studio portraits. Silver prints, 9 on carte-postale paper, the images measuring approximately 3x5¼ inches (7.6x13.3 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, some with captions in the negative, more than 30 with the studio J.N. Phinney Philippine & Orient stamp on verso; also includes one cyanotype and a few duplicates. 1910s-30s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Edward s. curtis (1868-1952)
Waiting in the Forest - Cheyenne.
Photogravure on Japanese vellum, the image measuring 15⅜x11 inches (39x27.9 cm.), the sheet 21¾x18 inches (55.2x45.7 cm.), with Curtis’ printed credit, title, plate number 218, and printer’s credit on recto. 1910
WITH–Two large-format photogravures from The North American Indian: Shores of Walker Lake (Van Gelder, 1924), pl. 534 * Agoma Roadway (Japanese vellum, 1904), pl. 570 and one small-format plate A Snake Priest (Japanese vellum, 1907)
Provenance: The Collection of Sheila Metzner, New York
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Edward s. curtis (1868-1952)
Prayer to the Stars.
Orotone, the plate measuring 13½x10½ inches (34.3x26.7 cm.), the original Curtis frame 19x16 inches (48.3x40.6 cm.), with Curtis' signature in the negative; the frame with The Curtis title label (partial) and The Curtis Studio label, on verso. 1908
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
Edward s. curtis.
Flute of the Gods.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1909)
By Marah Ellis Ryan. Illustrated with photogravure reproductions of Curtis’ photographs. 4to, cloth with a mounted photo-pictorial reproduction, rubbed and worn at the edges. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY CURTIS.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Wilson a. “snowflake” bentley (1865-1931)
A group of 10 vintage snow crystals.
Silver microphotographs from glass plate negatives, each measuring approximately 4x3 inches (10.2x7.6 cm.) overall, and one smaller. Circa 1903-10
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Edwin hale lincoln (1848-1938)
A complete suite of 24 lovely botanical studies from the series Wildflowers of New England - Part X.
Platinum prints, the images measuring 9¼x7¼ inches (23.5x18.4 cm.), the deckle-edged sheets 15x13 inches (38.1x33 cm.), each tipped to a mount with Lincoln’s letterpress credit, plate number, and title. Small folio, gilt-lettered brown folding case; with the accompanying colophon; contents loose as issued. 1904
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Gertrude käsebier (1852-1934)
Mother and Child.
Platinum print, the image measuring 6⅝x6 inches (16.8x15.2 cm.), double mounted on board, the larger 7⅞x6½ inches (20x16.5 cm.), with Käsebier’s signature in pencil on print recto, and the negative date on mount recto. 1906
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Edward steichen (1879-1973)
Moonrise, Mamaroneck, New York.
Photogravure, the image measuring 10x12¼ inches (25.4x31.1 cm.), the sheet 15¾x20 inches (40x50.8 cm.); with the original folder, including the printed Aperture title and colophon sheet with the printing information and dates. 1904; printed 2000
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Imogen cunningham (1883-1976)
The Wind.
Silver print, the image measuring 12¼x9⅛ inches (31.1x23.2 cm.), the mount 19½x15 inches (49.5x38.1 cm.), with Cunningham’s signature and negative date in pencil on mount recto and her Green Street label with the typed title and negative date on mount verso. 1910; printed circa 1970
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
George h. seeley (1880-1955)
Portrait of a woman holding flowers.
Oversize platinum print, the image measuring 19¾x15¾ inches (50.2x40 cm.), flush mounted, with Seeley’s signature and date in pencil on recto. 1918
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Heinrich kühn (1866-1944)
Still life with horse and hydrangeas.
Multiple oil transfer print on Japan paper, the image measuring 11½x14¼ inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Kühn’s stylized signature in pencil on recto. Circa 1914
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Alfred stieglitz.
“Photo-Secession” 291 Fifth Avenue.
A bound volume including the Steichen-designed Photo-Secession poster; a list of the Council, Elected Fellows, and Associate members of the Photo-Secession (“A Protest Against the Conventional Conception of Pictorial Photography”); followed by a series of 8 exhibition lists of work to be shown at 291, each with a title page with a decorative gilt circle. 8vo, plain boards with a paper title label and another decorative gilt circle, rubbed; with a duplicate fascicle with the Photo-Secession poster and list of members laid in; accompanied by a matching paper folder. 1905-06
WITH–Alfred Stieglitz. Night–New York. Photogravure, the image measuring 3¼x4 inches (8.9x10.2 cm.), flush mounted and mounted again to paper 11x8½ inches (27.9x21.6 cm.); with the original frame back. 1897
AND–Two pieces of ephemera, including a Photo-Secession financial report from 1909 and a small booklet issued by E. Weyhe giving a full synopsis of Camera Work issues available for sale, having received from “the publisher” a large quantity of stock.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Alfred stieglitz (1864-1946)
The Hand of Man, from Camera Work Number 1.
Photogravure on wove paper, the image measuring 6¼x8⅜ inches (15.8x21.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, the mount 6⅞x8⅞ inches (17.5x22.5 cm.). 1902; printed 1903
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Paul strand (1890-1976)
New York from the Park, from Camera Work Number 48.
Photogravure on Japan tissue, the image measuring 5½x6⅝ inches (14x16.8 cm.), the sheet 11¼x7¾ inches (28.6x19.7 cm.). 1916
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Edward steichen (1879-1973)
M. Auguste Rodin * Balzac–The Open Sky * Balzac–Toward the Light, Midnight * Balzac–The Silhouette, 4 a.m.
Together, 4 photogravures from Camera Work Number 34/35. Photogravures, the images measuring 9½x6½ inches (24.1x16.5 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets and original paper mounts 12x8¼ inches (30.5x21 cm.). 1911
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Edward steichen.
Steichen the Photographer.
Text by Carl Sandburg. With full-page reproductions of photographs by Steichen, including a self-portrait frontispiece and much of Steichen’s classical imagery, printed in handsome sepia tones. 4to, black cloth with the gilt-lettered title on the front cover, lightly worn and tender. Roth 54; Auer 143; Hasselblad 86. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 925 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY STEICHEN AND SANDBURG, THIS COPY WITH A BOOKPLATE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHER SHEILA METZNER.
(New York): Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1929
Provenance: The Collection of Sheila Metzner, New York
Estimate
$1,400 – $1,800
Edward steichen (1879-1973)
Gertrude Lawrence.
Silver contact print, the image measuring 9½x7⅝ inches (24.1x20 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Vogue’s credit in the negative, and Steichen’s credit, the sitter’s name, and date in ink, numerous notations in pencil, and a publication stamp “used in Am. Vogue,” on verso. 1930
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Horst p. horst (1906-1999)
Study for Lisa in Money Plant.
Silver contact print, the image measuring 9⅞x8¼ inches (25.1x21 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with inventory notations in the negative, and Horst’s signature in pencil, the title and date also in pencil in an unknown hand, and his credit stamp, on verso. 1939
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Horst p. horst (1906-1999)
Noel Coward, Paris.
Platinum palladium print, the image measuring 18x14 inches (45.7x35.6 cm.), the sheet 19¾x15¾ inches (50.2x40 cm.), with Horst’s signature in pencil on recto, and his signature again with the title, negative date, medium, and edition notation 10/10 in pencil on verso. 1936; printed 1980s
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
Edward weston (1886-1958)/cole weston (1919-2003)
Pepper #30.
Silver print, the image measuring 9⅜x7¼ inches (23.8x18.4 cm.), the mount 15x13¼ inches (38.1x33.6 cm.), with the title, negative date, and negative number 30P in pencil and an Edward Weston signature stamp on mount verso. 1930; printed circa 1970
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Edward weston (1886-1958)
Nude in Dunes.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅝x9½ inches (19.4x24.1 cm.), with Weston’s signature, title, and date in pencil, several “B.P. Made” stamps, and a Pageant stamp on verso. 1938
WITH–A facsimile of a letter written, signed, and dated by Edward Weston about his artistic vision of “The Landscape of a people,” May 18th, 1955
Provenance: The Collection of Sey & Natalie Chassler; by descent to the Present Owners
Sey Chassler (1919-1997) was the editor-in-chief at Redbook magazine. He was also an editor at Parade (where he continued to contribute columns and consulting until his death) and This Week magazine, as well as a photo editor at Colliers and Coronet early in his career. Chassler was an avid photographer, and began his career as a photo editor.
Chassler is remembered as an editor who expanded the notion of what women’s magazines could do, most notably including promoting equal rights. He led an effort that simultaneously published articles in 36 women’s magazines about the proposed equal rights amendment in 1976, and again in 1979. During his tenure with Redbook he increased the circulation from two to nearly five million, making it one of the biggest in the country and earning numerous awards. He was also a founding member of the Child Care Action Campaign and a member of the advisory boards of the National Women’s Political Caucus, the Institute for Women and Work at Cornell University, and the board of Abortion Rights Mobilization.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Ansel adams (1902-1984)
Milestone Mountain.
Parmelian print, the image measuring 7¼x5¾ inches (18.4x14.6 cm.), the sheet 12x10 inches (30.5x25.4 cm.), with Adams’ signature and edition notation 309 in pencil on recto; accompanied by the original folder with Adams’ printed credit on the cover, his title in pencil inside, and his printed credit and edition notation in pencil on verso. Circa 1928
Provenance: The Collection of Alma Lavenson; Gift from Albert Bender, a close friend and patron of Ansel Adams; by descent to Lavenson’s grandchildren
Albert Bender’s patronage of the arts and education was one of the most important contributions that shaped the development of San Francisco’s cultural life from the 1910s through the 1930s. Bender had been a patron of Ansel Adams since they met in 1926, when Bender was 60 and Adams only 24. Not only was Bender a patron of Adams, but they also became close friends as documented though numerous letters in the Ansel Adams papers at the Center for Creative Photography and in the Bender papers at Mills College.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Ansel adams (1902-1984)
Leaves, Glacier Bay, Alaska (two photographs on a single mount).
Silver prints, the images measuring 3⅝x2⅝ inches (9.2x6.7 cm.), and slightly smaller, the mount 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), with Adams’ Yosemite National Park stamp (BMFA 3) and reproduction notations (some his) in pencil and ink on mount recto and the notation “page 33” in ink on mount verso. Circa 1948
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Ansel adams (1902-1984)
Spires of St. Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco.
Silver print, the image measuring 8½x6½ inches (21.6x16.5 cm.), the mount 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), with Adams’ Yosemite National Park stamp (BMFA 3) and reproduction notations in ink on mount recto and additional notations in pencil on mount verso. Circa 1940s; printed before 1948
Adams’ commentary on this image in his book The Negative offers a poetic and practical glimpse into his skill as a practitioner and vision as a photographer: “The gilt crosses were blazing with the glare of sunlight. The stone of the church was fairly light, but if rendered ‘literally’ it would have competed with the crosses. Hence I exposed to keep the stone a middle value, and the foliage is thus quite dark. The sky was a deep blue and adequately separated in value from the stone. I made a second negative at one-half the exposure, but lost qualities in the shadows and in the foliage while gaining nothing with the values of the stone and cross. (The sky was deeper, but the effect was excessively theatrical.) With both negatives, the below-normal exposure had no effect on the glare from the crosses since that was far beyond the normal exposure scale of the film.”
Ansel Adams, The Negative, The Ansel Adams Photography Series 2 (Morgan and Lester, 1948), p. 38
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Ansel adams (1902-1984)
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico.
Silver print, the image measuring 12x15⅞ inches (30.5x40.3 cm.), with Adams' signature, title, and notation "For Reproduction Only (For Parade Magazine)" in ink and an editorial publication stamp on verso. 1941; printed 1960s
Provenance: The Collection of Sey & Natalie Chassler; by descent to the Present Owners
Sey Chassler (1919-1997) was the editor-in-chief at Redbook magazine. He was also an editor at Parade (where he continued to contribute columns and consulting until his death) and This Week magazine, as well as a photo editor at Colliers and Coronet early in his career. Chassler was an avid photographer, and began his career as a photo editor.
Chassler is remembered as an editor who expanded the notion of what women's magazines could do, most notably including promoting equal rights. He led an effort that simultaneously published articles in 36 women's magazines about the proposed equal rights amendment in 1976, and again in 1979. During his tenure with Redbook, he increased the circulation from two to nearly five million, making it one of the biggest in the country and earning numerous awards. He was also a founding member of the Child Care Action Campaign and a member of the advisory boards of the National Women's Political Caucus, the Institute for Women and Work at Cornell University, and the board of Abortion Rights Mobilization.
The commentary Ansel Adams wrote on this image in his book The Negative describes not only the technical challenges of taking such a photograph but also explains the genius behind it: "I came across this extraordinary scene when returning to Santa Fe from an excursion to the Chama Valley. The sun was edging a fast-moving bank of clouds in the west. I set up the 8 x 10 camera as fast as I could while visualizing the image. I had to exchange the front and back elements of my Cooke lens, attaching the 23-inch element in front, with a glass G filter (#15) behind the shutter. I focused and composed the image rapidly at full aperture, but I knew that because of the focus-shift of the single lens component, I had to advance the focus about 3/32 inch when I used f/32. These mechanical processes and the visualization were intuitively accomplished. Then, to my dismay, I could not find my exposure meter! I remembered that the luminance of the moon at that position was about 250 c/ft2; placing this luminance on Zone VII, I could calculate that 60 c/ ft2 would fall on Zone V. With a film of ASA 64, the exposure would be 1/60 second at f/8. Allowing a 3x exposure factor for the filter, the basic exposure was 1/20 second at f/8, or about one second at f/32, the exposure was given. I had no idea what the foreground values were, but knowing they were quite low, I indicated water-bath development. The distant clouds were at least twice as luminous as the moon itself. The foreground density of the developed negative was about a Value II, and was locally strengthened by intensification in the Kodak IN-5 formula (quite permanent and colorless - see page 235). It was of utmost importance to preserve texture in the moon itself. We all have seen the blank white circle that represents the moon in many photographs, primarily caused by gross overexposure."
Ansel Adams, The Negative, The Ansel Adams Photography Series 2 (Little, Brown and Company, 1976), p. 126
Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest (Little, Brown and Company, 1976), pl. 55
Ansel Adams, Letter and Images 1916 - 1984 (Little, Brown and Company, 1984), p. 142
Ansel Adams, An Autobiography (Little, Brown and Company, 1985), p. 274
Estimate
$30,000 – $45,000
Ansel adams (1902-1984)
Upper Yosemite Falls, Spring, Yosemite National Park, California.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7⅛ inches (24.1x18 cm.), the mount 16½x13½ inches (41.9x34.3 cm.), with Adams’ initials in pencil on mount recto, and the Special Edition Photographs of Yosemite stamp on mount verso. 1946; printed 1972-74
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Ansel adams (1902-1984)
Sentinel Rock and Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point Trail, Yosemite National Park, California.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the mount 13½x16½ inches (34.3x42 cm.), with the Special Edition Photographs of Yosemite stamp with Alan Ross’ credit and the title as well as Ross’ initials in pencil, on mount verso. Circa 1923; printed after 1972
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Ralph steiner (1899-1986)
Fire escape * Posters * Always Camels.
Together, 3 silver prints, the first image measuring 8¼x7½ inches (21x19.1 cm.), the sheet 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), the second 4¾x3⅝ inches (12x9.2 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, the third 3⅝x4½ inches (9.2x11.4 cm.), the mount 17x14 inches (43.2x35.6 cm.), the first with Steiner’s signature and dates in pencil on verso, the second in ink, and the third with his signature in pencil on mount recto. 1965, 1924, 1921; printed 1980
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Jessie tarbox beals (1870-1942)
Wall Street, New York.
Toned silver print, the image measuring 9¼x7⅛ inches (22.9x17.8 cm.), the mount 17x11 inches (43.2x27.9 cm.), with Beals’ signature in pencil on print recto, and her signature and title in pencil on mount recto. Circa 1910
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Jacob riis (1849-1914)
Group of 6 photographs of New York City schools.
Silver prints, the images measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and slightly smaller, one the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, each with a Museum of the City of New York Photo Archive Department label with the typed title (some with a date), three with an American Heritage stamp, the others with other use stamps, and each with other notations in pencil and ink on verso. 1880s-90s; printed 1950s-60s
West 52nd St. Industrial School * Saluting the Flag in the Mott St. Industrial School about 1889-90 * Prayer Time in Five Points Nursery about 1889 * The Old Five Points Mission School * A Class in the condemned Essex Market School, early 1890s * Nightschool in 7th Lodging house
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Lewis w. hine (1874-1940)
Boys working at the textile mill, Great Falls Mfg. Co, Somersworth, New Hampshire.
Silver print, the image measuring 4¾x6¾ inches (10.2x15.2 cm.), the sheet slightly larger. 1909
Hine’s description from the Library of Congress reads: “Smallest boy does not work in the mill The rest do Great Falls Mfg Co, Somersworth, NH Boy next in size to that one is James Carrigan, 24 Highland St The other small boy is Fred Bushey, 42 Main Street One of the smaller ones said he has been in the mill for three years.”
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Lewis w. hine (1874-1940)
Spinner in Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon, Ga. Bad lighting and ventilation in spinning room.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅝x9½ inches (19.4x24.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with a partially obscured title and date in an unknown hand and the Culver Pictures stamp, label, and barcode on verso. 1909; printed 1920s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Lewis w. hine (1874-1940)
Mrs. Eugene Lampron, Reservoir Street, Leeds, Mass., putting the bristles into toothbrushes in the kitchen of her home. She has been doing it for 9 years, and showed the effect of it.
Silver print, the image measuring 5x7 inches (12.7x17.8 cm.), with Hine’s credit, title, and numeric notation in pencil on verso. 1912
The full caption for this image is: “Mrs. Eugene Lampron, Reservoir Street, Leeds, Mass., putting the bristles into toothbrushes in the kitchen of her home. She has been doing it for 9 years, and showed the effect of it.”
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Lewis w. hine (1874-1940)
Lower East Side street scene.
Silver print, the image measuring 4¾x6¾ inches (12x17 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Hine’s Interpretive Photography, Hastings-On-Hudson stamp, and his Hine Photo Company and Set No. stamps with numeric notations in red ink, and additional numeric notations in pencil on verso. Circa 1910
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Lewis w. hine (1874-1940)
First Aid to the Injured.
Silver print, the image measuring 4⅝x6¾ inches (10.2x15.2 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the date and inventory notations in pencil on verso. 1933
Hine’s description from the Library of Congress reads: “First Aid to the Injured” represents a man equipped with a Draeger Oxygen Helmet. Avondale Shaft, D.L.W. Colliery. The need for and the presence of these rescue outfits is a strong argument against the employment of young boys. Location: [Pennsylvania]”
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Arthur mole (1889-1983) & john thomas (active 1918-1919)
A group of 5 patriotic “living photographs,” each comprised of thousands of soldiers.
Silver prints, the images measuring 13¼x10¼ inches (33.6x26 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, each with Mole & Thomas’ credit, title, and date in the negative. 1918-19
Woodrow Wilson, 21,000 Offers and Men, Camp Sherman * The Living Uncle Sam, 19,000 Officers and Men, Camp Lee * Y.M.C.A. Emblem, Formed by Officers, Men & Camp Activity Workers, at Camp Wheeler * Living Insignia of the Twenty-Seventh Division “New York’s Own,” Breakers of the Hindenburg Line, Formed of 10,000 Officers and Enlisted Men * The Human American Eagle, 12,500 Offers, Nurses, and Men, Camp Gordon
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
(the temperence movement)
Portrait of Carrie Nation (1846-1911).
The photograph by White Studio, NY, active 1903-1936. Silver print, the image measuring 5½x4 inches (14x10.2 cm.), the mount 8x5¼ inches (20.3x13.3 cm.), with the sitter’s name in pencil in an unknown hand on mount recto and the Culver Pictures stamp, label, and barcode, and a label with the title in pencil on verso. Circa 1910
Estimate
$500 – $750
(the high priestess of anarchy)
Photograph of noted anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman (1869-1940) before being deported.
Silver print, the image measuring 5⅜x3⅝ inches (13.6x9.2 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Goldman’s name in the negative and a faintly typed caption and date and the Culver Pictures stamp, label, and barcode on verso. 1919
Estimate
$500 – $750
(the greatest american humorist–samuel clemens)
Portrait of Mark Twain (1835-1910) at Tuxedo Park.
Silver print, the image measuring 5x6½ inches (12.7x16.5 cm.), with the title and date in pencil in an unknown hand and the Culver Pictures stamps and barcode on verso. 1907
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
(track star & jurist)
A pair of photographs of Edward Orval “Ned” Gourdin (1897-1966), an American athlete and jurist, here in his Harvard track gear.
Gourdin was the first man in history to make 25 feet in the long jump and the first African American and Native American to be appointed a Superior Court Judge in New England. He won a Silver medal at the 1924 Olympics. Silver prints, the images measuring 6½x4½ inches (16.5x11.4 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, each with Gourdin’s name in the negative, and each with a typed caption and date, and one with a Culver Service stamp and label and the other with a Bain News Service stamp on verso. 1921
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
(sports–boxing)
Portrait of Jack Johnson, nicknamed the “Galveston Giant,” the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion.
Silver print, the image measuring 6¼x4¼ inches (15.9x10.8 cm.), with the sitter’s name in pencil in an unknown hand and the photographer Branger’s Paris stamp on verso. Circa 1915
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
(femme fatale & queen of the night)
Portrait of the Marchesa Luisa Casati (1881-1957) dressed in a House of Worth costume apparently based on Léon Bakst’s design.
Silver print, the image measuring 11⅞x7 inches (30.2x17.8 cm.), fixed with contemporary corners on a paper mount 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with a signature in ink on print recto and a stamp and the notation Casati in ink on mount recto. 1922
Provenance: The Collection of Sheila Metzner, New York
This image appeared in German Vogue, February 2000. The tear sheet accompanies this lot. Here, the Queen of the Night design is attributed to Bakst, but elsewhere the dress itself is credited to House of Worth. The costume is made of a net of diamonds, incorporates a gold feather sun against a diamond tiara, and has a glittering silver fringe.
The original femme fatale, the Marchesa Luisa Casati aspired to be a work of art. And indeed, her eccentricities dominated and delighted European society for nearly three decades. She captivated artists and literati figures such as Giovanni Boldini, Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, Cecil Beaton, Ezra Pound, and Jack Kerouac, commissioning and inspiring numerous works of art. She remains a fashion muse today.
In 1910, Casati took up residence at the Palazzo dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice (now the home of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection). Her soirées there would become legendary. Casati collected a menagerie of exotic animals and a host of incredible stories, including walking her cheetahs with jeweled leads wearing nothing but furs. At a time when no respectable women wore makeup, she darkened her eyes with kohl and painted her mouth vermillion, accenting her green eyes with false eyelashes and hennaed hair. She wore live snakes as jewelry, tiger-skin top hats, ornamental eye patches, and once, the blood of a freshly killed chicken.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
(empress of the blues)
Portrait of Bessie Smith (1894-1937), legendary jazz and blues singer.
Silver press print, the image measuring 9⅝x6⅞ inches (24.4x17.5 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the sitter’s name and date in pencil in an unknown hand, and the Culver stamps, label, and barcode on verso. 1925
Estimate
$500 – $750
Eugène atget (1857-1927)
Auberge des Carrosses d’Orléans.
Albumen print, the image measuring 8¾x7 inches (20.3x17.8 cm.), the later mount 13x11 inches (33x27.9 cm.). Circa 1900
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Eugène atget (1857-1927)/berenice abbott (1898-1991)
Street vendor.
Silver contact print, the image measuring 9⅜x7 inches (23.8x17.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the Eugène Atget Photograph Collection Berenice Abbott stamp and the notation “Print made by Berenice Abbott from Atget’s original plate” in pencil on verso. 1910-20; printed 1959
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Early Twentieth Century European
André kertész (1894-1985)
Bocskay-tér, Budapest.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅜x9¾ inches (18.7x24.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Kertész’s signature in pencil on verso. 1914; printed 1970s
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
André kertész (1894-1985)
Chez Mondrian, Paris.
Silver print, the image measuring 9¾x7⅛ inches (24.8x18 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Kertész’s signature, notation Paris, and negative date in pencil, and a printing notation also in pencil in an unknown hand, on verso. 1926; printed 1979
Provenance: Christie’s, New York, November 9, 1995; to the Present Owner
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
André kertész (1894-1985)
Broken Plate, Paris.
Silver print, the image measuring 15¾x19⅞ inches (40x50.5 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Kertész’s signature, notation Paris, and negative date in pencil on verso. 1929; printed circa 1970
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
August sander (1876-1964)/gunther sander (1907-1987)
A portfolio titled Künstlerporträts von August Sander [Portraits of Artists Portfolio].
Complete with 12 photographs. Silver prints, the images each measuring approximately 11⅜x8¼ inches (29x21 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 21⅝x17¾ inches (54.9x45.1 cm.), each with the Aug. Sander blind stamp on print recto, and a portfolio stamp with Gunther Sander’s signature and the edition notation 53/75 in pencil, on mount verso. Folio-sized gray box; the colophon with the edition limitation and plate list; contents loose as issued. FROM AN EDITION OF 75 SETS. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1924-30; printed 1974
The Painter Gottfried Brockmann, 1924 * The Painter Willi Bongartz, 1924 * The Painter Gerd Arntz, 1929 * The Painters Anton Räderscheidt and Marta Hegemann, 1924 * The Painter Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, 1928 * The Dadaist Raoul Hausmann, Posing, 1930 * The Dadaist Raoul Hausmann, Sitting, 1930 * The Painter Heinrich Hoerle, 1929 * The Painter Otto Dix and Wife, 1926 * Heinrich Hoerle, Painting the Boxing Champion Hein Domgörgen, 1929 * The Painter Otto Freundlich, 1929 * The Painter Jankel Adler, 1929
Estimate
$15,000 – $25,000
August sander (1876-1964)/gerd sander (1940)
Young Girl in Circus Caravan [Maedchen im Zirkuswagen].
Silver print, the image measuring 10¼x7½ inches (26x19 cm.), the mount 17¼x13¼ inches (43.8x33.7 cm.), with the Aug. Sander blind stamp on print recto; and Gerd Sander’s signature and print date in pencil, and inventory number and edition notation 7/12 in ink, and the August Sander Archive stamp with the print date, on print verso; and the Archive stamp again with the Sander People of the 20th Century label on mount verso. 1926; printed 1990
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Henri cartier-bresson (1908-2004)
Children in Juchitán, Mexico.
Ferrotyped silver print, the image measuring 9½x6¼ inches (24.1x16 cm.), with Cartier-Bresson’s credit stamp and copyright and other notations in pencil and ink on verso. 1934; printed late 1940s-early 50s
Prints of this image are held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Helen levitt (1913-2009)
Mexico City (two children with dog).
Silver print, the image measuring 6¼x8⅞ inches (15.9x22.5 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Levitt’s signature, partial title, and the notation M 69 in pencil on verso. 1941; printed 1980s
Provenance: Gift of the Artist to the Collection of Sidney and Edna Meyers
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Manuel álvarez bravo (1902-2002)
La Teirra Misma [The Earth Itself].
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7¼ inches (24.1x18.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Bravo’s signature and notation México in pencil on verso; accompanied by two signed exhibition ephemera from Bravo’s Getty exhibition in 1992. 1930s; printed before 1992
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York; gifted by the Artist to Evelyne Z. Daitz on the occasion of his Getty exhibition in 1992
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Manuel álvarez bravo (1902-2002)
Los Obstáculos.
Silver print, the image measuring 10⅛x13½ inches (25.7x34.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Bravo’s signature and the notation México in pencil on verso; enclosed in a mat with Bravo’s signature again and his inscription “A Evelyne & Howard, N.Y. 9-23-80” in pencil. 1929; printed 1970s
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
George platt lynes (1907-1955)
Twelve Portraits of Monroe Wheeler.
A composition of 12 silver prints trimmed to individually-stylized shapes by the artist, the images measuring 3½x1⅞ inches (8.9x4.8 cm.), and smaller, the mount 12¾ inches (32.4 cm.) square. 1928
Provenance: Linda Hyman Fine Art,1993; to The Estate of Monroe Wheeler
The photographs were originally stored in a small envelope with the inscription “MW by GLP” in Wheeler’s hand.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Max dupain (1911-1992)
Sunbaker.
Silver print, the image measuring 15⅛x17⅛ inches (38.1x43.2 cm.), with Dupain's signature, title, and negative date in pencil on recto. 1937; printed early 1970s
Estimate
$20,000 – $30,000
Pajama (paul cadmus, jared french, and margaret french)
Provincetown (George Tooker and Paul Cadmus).
Silver print, the image measuring 4½x6⅝ inches (11.4x16.8 cm.), with Jared French’s credit (“by J.F.”), the sitter’s names, location, and date in pencil, in Cadmus’ hand, and a Collection of Paul Cadmus stamp on verso. 1947
Provenance: Phillips, New York, lot 288, on November 9, 1981; to The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Bruce bellas (bruce of la) (1909-1974)
Steve Reeves and Buddies, two variant portraits.
Silver prints, the images measuring 7⅝x9¾ inches (19.4x24.8 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, each with Bruce of LA’s Sanford Station Los Angeles stamp, and one with the name of the sitter and date in pencil on verso. 1949
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Brassaï (1899-1984)
A Guilded Warrior at the Four Arts Ball.
Silver print, the image measuring 11⅝x9⅛ inches (29.5x23.2 cm.), with Brassaï’s signature in ink, his Faubourg St-Jacques credit stamp, the Tirage de l’Auteur, reproduction limitation, and Photographie Originale stamps, and the title in pencil in an unknown hand on verso. 1931-32; printed 1960s
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Fernand fonssagrives (1910-2003)
La Plage de Noir Moutier #1.
Silver print, the image measuring 12⅞x10½ inches (32.7x26.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Fonssagrives’ signature, title, and edition notation 1/50 in pencil on verso. 1935-37; printed circa 1980
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
André kertész (1894-1985)
Distortion (nude).
Silver print, the image measuring 6¾x9¾ inches (17.1x24.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Kertész’s signature, partial title (“Distortion No”), notation Paris, and negative date in pencil on verso. 1933; printed circa 1970
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Alfred eisenstaedt (1898-1995)
Afternoon Tea on the Roof of the Excelsior Hotel, Florence, Italy.
Silver print, the image measuring 9¼x11½ inches (23.5x29.2 cm.), with Eisenstaedt’s PIX stamp, a PIX Publishing Inc. label, a library stamp, and the title and date in pencil in an unknown hand, on verso. 1934
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Alfred eisenstaedt (1898-1995)
Children Dancing School at La Scala, Milan, Italy.
Silver print, the image measuring 17⅜x11½ inches (43.2x27.9 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Eisenstaedt’s credit stamp and the title and negative date in ink on verso. 1934; printed 1990s
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Alfred eisenstaedt (1898-1995)
Portrait of a Fig Factory Worker in Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey.
Silver print, the image measuring 7x9½ inches (17.8x24.1 cm.), with Eisenstaedt’s signature, title, date, and notation “printed by myself” in ink, another title notation also in ink in an unknown hand, two of his credit and copyright stamps, and a Reproduction stamp, on verso. 1934
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Brassaï (1899-1984)
Le Chat de Grasse.
Silver print, the image measuring 11⅝x8⅝ inches (29.5x21.9 cm.), with Brassaï’s signature, title, notation, and dated inscription in ink, and his Rue du Faub.-St. Jacques stamp, on verso. 1930s; printed circa 1973
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Bill brandt (1904-1983)
Tic-Tac Men at Ascot Races.
Silver print, the image measuring 11⅜x10⅜ inches (27.9x25.4 cm.), the sheet 16x13⅝ inches (40.6x33 cm.), with Brandt’s signature and edition notation 12/25 in ink on recto. 1935; printed circa 1980
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
(société anonyme)
A selection of 5 real photo postcards, including work by Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp.
The group includes Man Ray’s Lampshade, Marcel Duchamp’s The Large Glass [A Regarder d’un Oeil, de pres, pendant presque une heure], an untitled work by Heinrich Campendonk, Archipenko’s Femme Debout, and Katherine S. Dreier’s Portrait of Marcel Duchamp. Silver prints, 4 on carte-postale paper, these images measuring approximately 4¾x3½ inches (12x8.9 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, and one 2⅝x4¾ inches (6.7x12 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, each with the S © A credit, name, and address as well as the artist’s credit on recto, and four with the triangular logo and two with the imprint on verso. 1920-30
The Société Anonyme, which was founded in 1920 by Katherine Dreier, Man Ray, and Marcel Duchamp, was an experimental museum whose goal was to promote contemporary art to American audiences. The trio of artists produced more than 80 exhibitions between 1920-1940. Dreier eventually donated the collection to the Yale University Art Gallery in 1941.
Estimate
$18,000 – $22,000
Roman vishniac (1887-1990)
Kraków.
Silver print, the image measuring 13⅝x10¾ inches (34.6x27.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Vishniac’s New York address stamp on verso. 1937; printed 1970s
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Roman vishniac (1897-1990)
Entrance to the Old Ghetto, Kraków.
Silver print, the image measuring 19½x15⅜ inches (48.3x39.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Vishniac's signature in pencil on verso, and his signature again in pencil, on the overmat. 1937; printed 1960s
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
American Documentary
Margaret bourke-white (1904-1971)
Girls and Sugar Beets, Kostolna, Slovakia.
Warm-toned silver print, the image measuring 10¼x13½ inches (25.4x33 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Bourke-White's signature, title, printing notations, and citation "North of the Danube" with the page number p 65 in pencil, and an Everyday Photography stamp with her initials and the issue March, also in pencil, on verso. 1938; printed circa 1938-39
WITH--Trees of the Moravian Forest. Warm-toned silver print, the image measuring 10¼x13½ inches (25.4x33 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Bourke-White's credit stamp, title, and the citation "North of the Danube" with the page number p 98 in pencil on verso. 1938; printed circa 1938-39
Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White, North of the Danube (Viking, New York, 1939)
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Joe rosenthal (1911-2006)
Raising of the Flag at Iwo Jima.
Silver ferrotyped press print, the image measuring 8x6¾ inches (20.3x17 cm.), the sheet 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), with Rosenthal’s signature and inscription “Best wishes to/Bob Martin a real/Marine who was ‘there’ when we needed/him” in ink on recto, and an Associated Press stamp on verso. 1945; printed 1950s
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Charles wyckoff (1916-1998)
A stunning photograph of the molten fireball aftermath of the first hydrogen bomb test, code-named Ivy Mike.
This photograph appeared on the cover of Life magazine on April 19, 1954. Silver press print, the image measuring 6½x8½ inches (16.6x21.6 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the typed caption “BOMBS - HYDROGEN,” a faded press stamp, an April 19, 1954 date stamp, and a press slug adhered on verso. 1952
Charles Wales Wyckoff was an American photographic innovator, a photochemist specializing in high-speed photography, also noted today for his innovations in the field of high dynamic range imaging. Wyckoff did postgraduate work at MIT with another innovator, Harold Edgerton, working together to develop techniques to photograph atomic experiments in the Pacific Ocean.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Wendell macrae (1896-1980)
RCA Building.
Silver print, the image measuring 13⅜x10¼ inches (34x26 cm.), with MacRae’s signature and title in pencil, his address stamp, and dated copyright also in pencil in an unknown hand, on verso. 1930s
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Dr. paul wolff (1887-1951)
Times Square, New York.
Silver print, the image measuring 7x9½ inches (17.8x24.1 cm.), with Wolff’s Frankfurt stamp and copyright stamp, the title (in German), negative date, and several numeric notations in pencil, and his AG Schostal label, on verso. 1932
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Walker evans (1903-1975)
New York State Farm Interior.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅛x9⅜ inches (18x23.8 cm.), the mount 18x14¾ inches (45.7x37.5 cm.), with Evans’ signature and negative date in pencil on mount recto, and his Old Lyme stamp, the title, and negative date, and a Lunn Archive stamp with the notation I and 38 in pencil on mount verso. 1931; printed circa 1970
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Walker evans (1903-1975)
Graveyard and Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9⅜ inches (19.1x 23.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Evans’ F.S.A. credit label with the title, place, negative date, and F.S.A. negative number, and The Library of Congress copyright stamp on verso. 1935; printed 1950s
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
(bureau of reclamation)
A selection of 39 photographs documenting water and power systems in the West, including the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam and Power Plant.
The Bureau of Reclamation constructed dams, power plants, and canals in 17 western states, the height of which occurred during the Great Depression using Civilian Public Service labor. About half of the photographs document the Grand Coulee Dam, at the time the largest concrete structure in the world, and half depict other water and power systems projects in the West, including the Shasta Dam in Northern California and Boulder Dam, as well as canals in Arizona. Silver prints, the images measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.x24.1 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, each with a combination of date stamps, press stamps, N.E.A. stamps, and Bureau of Reclamation stamps, numerous captions and notations in pencil and/or ink, typed captions, and/or Culver Pictures stamps, labels and barcodes, on verso. 1933-42
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
John gutmann (1905-1998)
The Fleet is In, San Francisco.
Silver print, the image measuring 6¾x9½ inches (17.1x24.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Gutmann’s signature, title, and negative date in pencil on verso. 1934; printed 1980s
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Aaron siskind (1903-1991)
Harlem (boys with paper bags).
Silver print, the image measuring 8x11⅛ inches (20.3x27.9 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Siskind's signature, title, and negative date in ink on recto, and his signature, negative date, and the notation "From Harlem Document" in pencil on verso. Circa 1935; printed 1970s
Estimate
$1,400 – $1,800
Ben shahn (1898-1969)
Unemployed trappers, Louisiana.
Silver print, the image measuring 6½x9½ inches (15.2x22.9 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the Library of Congress Collection stamp on verso. 1935; printed circa 1970
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Berenice abbott (1898-1991)
Oldest Apartment Building in N.Y.C, 142 E. 18th St.
Silver contact print, the image measuring 7¾x9¾ inches (17.8x22.9 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Abbott’s Federal Art Project “Changing New York” stamp with her signature, title, date, and negative number in pencil, and her Commerce St. stamp, on verso. 1935
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Berenice abbott (1898-1991)
Daily News Building, 42nd Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue, New York.
Silver print, the image measuring 9x7½ inches (22.9x17.8 cm.), with Abbott’s Commerce and 66 West 53rd Street credit stamps, a Gamma stamp, and the title and date in blue pencil in an unknown hand, on verso. 1935
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Berenice abbott (1898-1991)
West Street Row II, Lower West Side.
Silver contact print, the image measuring 8x9⅝ inches (20.3x22.9 cm.), with Abbott’s Federal Art Project “Changing New York” stamp with the title, location, negative number, and date in pencil, and a Gamma stamp on verso. 1936
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Andreas feininger (1906-1999)
9th Avenue Elevated, 9th Ave between 14th Street and 19th St.
Silver print, the image measuring 13¾x10⅞ inches (35x27.6 cm.), with Feininger’s signature, title, date, and notations in pencil and ink, and his Black Star, Foto: Andreas Feininger, and 365 West 20th Street stamps on verso. 1940
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Arthur rothstein (1915-1985)
Farmer, Lancaster County, Nebraska.
Silver print, the image measuring 12x9 inches (30.5x22.9 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Rothstein’s signature in pencil on recto. 1936; printed circa 1980
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Dorothea lange (1895-1965)
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age 32).
Silver print, the image measuring 9⅝x7⅝ inches (24.4x19.4 cm.), with Lange’s F.S.A. credit stamp, a Farm Security Administration stamp, the typed title and date, and the RA number in pencil, on verso. 1936
Provenance: From the Collection of Romana Javitz; by descent to the Present Owner
Romana Javitz (1903-80) was curator of The New York Public Library’s Picture Collection from 1928-68, where she assembled one of the most historically important and artistically significant collections of 20th-century photographs. An early champion of photography who said “great photography ranks with great art,” she established personal relationships with Dorothea Lange, Lewis Hine, and Berenice Abbott, encouraging artists to bring her work, which she subsequently purchased for the library.
In 1936, Javitz worked with Roy Stryker, head of the Farm Security Administration’s Photographic Section to organize the files of the Resettlement Administration. She visited Washington D.C. to format the photographs into a collection, and he sent her duplicate prints of some work to ensure their preservation before it was clear that they would be preserved in D.C.
Javitz felt strongly about this material. The seminal text Words on Pictures (edited by Anthony T. Troncale) records interviews in which she discussed the body of work (the collection had, ultimately, 40,000 prints from the various photographers who worked for the F.S.A.), highlighting both the new documentary mode of image-making as well as the artistic success of the work. Javitz recalled “when the photographs came to us, they just gave us a completely new eye. It was really a third eye for all our trouble. You have no idea of what richness it meant to us. First of all, it was the first time that we had images that were clean cut. They weren’t made to sell records or soap or whatnot” (p. 208). Her deep understanding of the material extended to the idea of the photo essay. “You have a sense that every picture is just like one word of a sentence,” she said about Lange’s work (p. 205) and describing FSA photographs generally arriving at the NYPL. Seeing just one is not enough, she argued.
“Curators of photographic collections-and I’m going to include Steichen-tried very hard to present photography as an art but actually photographs as documents is a much more exciting subject” (p. 230), Javitz said in one interview. Her strong sense of considering the image content first, created a dynamic collection of images in which the idea of hierarchies and isolation were simply not applicable.
Estimate
$100,000 – $150,000
Dorothea lange (1895-1965)
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California.
Hand-pulled dust-grain photogravure, the image measuring 12x9¼ inches (30.5x23.5 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.); accompanied by the original printed folder and colophon from the Aperture Foundation with the Oakland Museum Dorothea Lange Collection curator’s signature in ink and the edition notation 74/300. 1936; printed circa 1982
Printed by Photogravure Workshop, Silver Mountain Foundation, Aperture, NY, NY, 5/96
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Dorothea lange (1895-1965)
Hoe Culture, Tenant Farmer near Anniston, Alabama.
Silver print, the image measuring 11¾x10 inches (29.8x25.4 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with The Oakland Museum Dorothea Lange blind stamp on recto, and the museum’s stamp with the credit and copyright information and the title, negative date, and negative number in red ink, on verso. 1937; printed circa 1990s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Dorothea lange (1895-1965)
Supper time on “Highway No.1 of the OK State” * Returning from California, Canadian County, OK * Oklahomans on US 99, San Joaquin Valley, CA.
Together, 3 photographs from An American Exodus. Silver prints, the images measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and smaller, and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, each with The Dorothea Lange Collection / the Oakland Museum of California’s copyright stamp on verso. 1936 and 1938; printed circa 2000
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Dorothea lange (1895-1965)
Ferry boats still transport some of the traffic between New York City and Jersey * Ferry boats still make train connections which transport passengers in and out of New York City.
Together, 2 photographs documenting ferry boats in New York Harbor. Silver prints, the images measuring 7⅜x7½ inches (18.7x19.1 cm.), each with a (faint) Resettlement Administration number on verso. 1939
Provenance: From the Photographer; to Walker Evans, before 1940; to an editor at Princeton, New Jersey; to Photo West Gallery/Bradley Lemery, San Diego; to the Present Owner
Rare, possibly unique vintage prints of these images. The nitrate negatives (LC-USF34-19839-E and LC-USF34-19840-E) are housed at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., Farm Security Administration Prints, and Photographs Division.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Berenice abbott (1898-1991)
Herald Square, 34th and Broadway, Manhattan.
Silver print, the image measuring 15½x19>AF3/8> inches (38.1x48.3 cm.), the mount 26x30 inches (66x76.2 cm.), with Abbott’s block-lettered signature and the edition notation 41/60 in pencil on mount recto, and her Abbot New York, Parasol Parasol Press Ltd. portfolio stamp on mount verso. 1936; printed 1979
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Alfred eisenstaedt (1898-1995)
Sharecropper Lonnie Fair and Daughter listening to Victrola, Mississippi.
Silver print, the image measuring 7¾x9⅞ inches (17.8x22.9 cm.), with Eisenstaedt’s PIX credit stamp, the TIME Inc. copyright and LIFE Picture Collection stamps, and the title and numerous notations in pencil on verso. 1936-38
Provenance: LIFE Picture Collection, 2006; Monroe Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe; to the Present Owner
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Walter rosenblum (1919–2006)
Boys on Swing, Pitt Street, NY.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅛x8¾ inches (18x22.2 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Rosenblum’s signature, title, and negative date in ink on verso. 1938; printed 1950s
Estimate
$1,800 – $2,200
Otto hagel (1909-1973)
Philadelphia, for Life magazine.
Silver print, the image measuring 13¼x10½ inches (33.7x26.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Hagel’s signature, title, and date “1938 or 1939” in pencil on verso. 1939
Provenance: Hansel Mieth (the photographer and wife of Otto Hagel); to the Present Owner
Estimate
$1,400 – $1,800
Marion post wolcott (1910-1990)
Migrants playing checkers (with bottle caps), on a juke joint porch after a “freeze out” of vegetable crops, near Okeechobee, Florida.
Silver print, the image measuring 8¼x11⅛ inches (21x28.2 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (28x35.6 cm.), with Wolcott’s signature in pencil on verso. 1939; printed 1980s
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Godfrey frankel (1912-1995)
Washington, D.C. (two boys, one looking up).
Silver print, the image measuring 13⅝x10⅞ inches (34.6x27.6 cm.), with Frankel’s signature, location, and negative date in pencil on verso. 1943; printed 1970
Provenance: The Photographer; the Middendorf Gallery, Washington D.C., as agent, to the Present Owner
Laura Goldstein & Gordon Parks, Photographs by Godfrey Frankel, In the Alleys: Kids in the Shadow of the Capitol (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press., 1995), p. 68
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Jerome leibling (1924-2011)
Boy and Car, NYC.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½ inches (24.1 cm.) square, the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Leibling’s signature, title, negative date, and the notation “Strand project” in pencil, and a faded credit stamp on verso. 1949; printed 1990s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Marion palfi (1907-1978)
Signs of Discrimination, from Suffer Little Children.
Silver print, the image measuring 13½x7¾ inches (34.3x19.7 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Palfi’s signature in pencil on mount recto, her title, citations, and additional information in ink on mount verso. 1946-49; printed 1970s
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Helen levitt (1913-2009)
New York (Foreign Legion).
Silver print, the image measuring 6⅜x9½ inches (15.2x22.9 cm.). 1940; printed 1940s
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
Helen levitt (1913-2009)
N.Y. (two boys hugging).
Silver print, the image measuring 9⅛x6½ inches (23.2x16.5 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Levitt’s signature, notation N.Y., and negative date in pencil on verso. Circa 1942; printed circa 1980s
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Helen levitt (1913-2009)
N.Y. (children in masks).
Silver print, the image measuring 6¼x8 inches (20.3x15.9 cm.) the sheet 10¾x13½ inches (27.3x34.3 cm.) with Levitt’s signature, notation N.Y., and negative date in pencil on verso. 1948; printed 1980s
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Helen levitt (1913-2009)
Man with child over puddle * Two women with dog * Man in chair, chin in hand.
Together, 3 silver contact prints, the images measuring approximatively 3¾x2⅝ inches (7.6x5 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, one with Levitt’s signature and two with her initials in pencil on verso. Circa 1950s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Ruth orkin (1921-1985)
Boy Jumps into Hudson River, Gansevoort Pier, Greenwich Village.
Silver print, the image measuring 12½x10 inches (31.7x25.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Orkin’s title and negative date (1947) in pencil, and her 65 Central Park West stamp and her dated copyright stamp on verso. 1948; printed circa 1980
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Morris engel (1918-2005)
A pair of photographs from the series Rebecca of Harlem.
Silver prints, the images measuring 10¼x13⅜ inches (26x34 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, each flush mounted, with Engel’s signature in ink and his title, date, and a number in pencil on mount verso. 1947
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Weegee [arthur fellig] (1899-1968)
Refugees from a Tenement Fire, Lower East Side.
Ferrotyped silver print, the image measuring 13⅜x10½ inches (34x26.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Weegee’s Credit Photo by Weegee stamp, a short description in ink in an unknown hand, and a publication stamp for SPOT magazine on verso. 1941
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Weegee [arthur fellig] (1899-1968)
After the Opera, at Sammy’s Night Club on the Bowery.
Silver print, the image measuring 13⅝x10⅝ inches (33x25.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Weegee’s credit stamp on verso. Circa 1943-44
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Weegee [arthur fellig] (1899-1968)
The Critic.
Ferrotyped silver print, the image measuring 8⅜x7¾ inches (21.3x19.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with two of Weegee's 451 West 47th Street credit stamps and the date and printing notations in pencil on verso. 1958
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Lisette model (1901-1983)
Man yawning on bench.
Ferrotyped silver print, the image measuring 13½x11 inches (34.3x27.9 cm.), with Model’s signature, address, and printing notations in ink on verso. 1950s
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
William heick (1916-2012)
Pool Hall, San Francisco (Filipino).
Silver print, the image measuring 8x9⅞ inches (20.3x25 cm.), the mount 14x18 inches (35.6x45.7 cm.), with Heick’s signature and negative date in pencil on mount recto. 1948; printed 1990s
Provenance: Acquired directly from the Photographer; to the Present Owner
“William Heick,” B&W Magazine, Issue 17, February 2002, p. 101
Estimate
$1,400 – $1,800
Peter stackpole (1913-1997)
Man with cigarette posing with a look-alike mural * Men at a casino with cigars.
Together, 2 silver prints, the images measuring approximately 9½x8 inches (24.1x20.3 cm.), and the reverse, each with Stackpole’s Life credit stamp and a date stamp on verso. Circa 1949
Estimate
$1,400 – $1,800
Arthur leipzig (1918-2014)
Crack the Whip, East River Drive, Between 123rd and 124th St., NYC.
Silver print, the image measuring 8⅞x10¼ inches (22.5x26 cm.), with Leipzig’s credit stamp, the title in pencil, and a dated press reproduction stamp, on verso. 1950
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Ralph steiner (1899-1986)
A group of 6 interior views of the vacuum company Bissell, Inc., made for the Fortune magazine story “Bissell’s Big Sweep.”
Silver prints, 5 of the images measuring approximately 10½x11¼ inches (26.7x28.6 cm.) and one 10½x13⅜ inches ( 26.7x34 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), each with a Raph Steiner, New York credit label on mount recto. 1959
WITH–The 1960 Fortune magazine in which 4 of the 6 images included in this group were published with the story Bissell’s Big Sweep, about the replacement of the 19th-century Bissell, Inc. factory in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The prints were likely made for presentation to the company.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Walter rosenblum (1919–2006)
Mother Feeding Child, Haiti.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅝x9 inches (19.4x22.9 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Rosenblum’s signature, title, and date in ink on verso. 1958
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Henri cartier-bresson (1908-2004)
Soldier, Champs-Elysees * Cobbler, London * Man in front of Cathedral * Lourdes.
Together, 4 photographs. Silver prints, the images measuring 7x10 inches (17.8x25.4 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, each with Cartier-Bresson’s credit stamp, an ABC press stamp, and a “David and Tessa Winter Collection” stamp, two with Cartier-Bresson’s “Vive la France” stamp, and one with a newspaper clipping, on verso. 1950s-60s
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
W. eugene smith (1918-1978)
Spanish Spinner.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x6⅝ inches (24.1x16.8 cm.), with Smith’s credit, copyright, and address in pencil in his assistant’s Leslie Teicholz’s hand on verso. 1950
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Inge morath (1923-2002)
Siesta of a Lottery Ticket Vendor, Plaza Mayor, Madrid.
Silver print, the image measuring 12⅞x8¾ inches (30.5x20.3 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Morath’s signature in ink on recto, and her credit stamp and title and inventory notation in pencil on verso. 1955; printed 1970
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Bill brandt (1904-1983)
Portrait of a Young Girl, Eaton Place.
Silver print, the image measuring 13x11¼ inches (33x28.6 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Brandt's signature in ink on mount recto. 1955; printed circa 1980
Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, sale 5318, May 7-8, 1985; to the Present Owner
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Bill brandt (1904-1983)
East Sussex Coast.
Silver print, the image measuring 13¼x11¼ inches (33.7x28.6 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Brandt's signature in ink on mount recto. 1957; printed circa 1980
Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, sale 5318, May 7-8, 1985; to the Present Owner
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Robert doisneau (1912-1994)
La Dame Indignée.
Silver print, the image measuring 9⅜x11⅞ inches (23.8x30.2 cm.), the sheet 12x16 inches (30.5x40.6 cm.), with Doisneau’s signature in ink on recto and his initials, title, and negative date in ink on verso. 1948; printed 1980s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Robert doisneau (1912-1994)
Le Fox-Terrier du Pont des Arts, Paris.
Silver print, the image measuring 11¼x9⅜ inches (28.6x23.8 cm.), the sheet 15½x11¾ inches (39.4x29.8 cm.), with Doisneau’s signature in ink on recto and his initials, title, and negative date in ink on verso. 1953; printed 1980s
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Brassaï (1899-1984)
Studio de Danse.
Silver print, the image measuring 11⅝x9⅜ inches (29.5x23.8 cm.), with Brassaï’s title, negative date, and a numeric notation in ink, and his 18 Faubourg St-Jacques stamp on verso. 1958; printed 1970s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Henri cartier-bresson (1908-2004)
Swan Lake, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, USSR.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x14⅛ inches (22.9x35.6 cm.), the sheet 12x15¾ inches (30.5x38.1 cm.), with Cartier-Bresson’s signature in ink, and his copyright blind stamp on recto. 1954; printed 1990s
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
Marc riboud (1923-2016)
Photographer’s rally, organized by Fuji, Karuizawa, Japan.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x14¼ inches (24.1x36.2 cm.), the sheet 12x16 inches (30.5x40.6 cm.), with Riboud’s signature in pencil on recto and his signature, negative date, and partial title in pencil on verso. 1958; printed 1990s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Henri cartier-bresson (1908-2004)
China.
Silver print, the image measuring 7¾x11½ inches (19.7x29.2 cm.), with Cartier-Bresson’s credit stamp and a numeric notation in pencil on verso. 1958
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Fan ho (1931-2016)
Different Directions, Hong Kong.
Silver print, the image measuring 3½x4½ inches (8.9x11.4 cm.), with Fan Ho’s signature in ink on verso. 1958
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Henri cartier-bresson (1908-2004)
West-Berlin (Children Playing by the Berlin Wall).
Silver print, the image measuring 6½x9⅝ inches (15.2x22.9 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with two of Cartier-Bresson’s credit stamps, and the location and partial title in pencil in an unknown hand on verso. 1962; printed 1970s
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Henri cartier-bresson (1908-2004)
Siphnos, Greece.
Silver print, the image measuring 11¾x17⅝ inches (29.9x44.8 cm.), the sheet 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Cartier-Bresson’s signature in ink and his copyright blind stamp on recto. 1961; printed 1990s
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
Elliott erwitt (1928- )
The California Kiss.
Silver print, the image measuring 11¾x17⅝ inches (29.8x44.7 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; framed. 1955; printed circa 1990
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Willy ronis (1910-2009)
Venice.
Silver print, the image measuring 13½x9¼ inches (34.3x23.5 cm.), the sheet 16x12 inches (40.6x30.5 cm.), with Ronis’ signature in ink on recto, and the title, negative date, and numeric notation in pencil, the initialed print date in ink, and his copyright stamp, on verso. 1959; printed 1993
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Mario giacomelli (1925-2000)
Landscape #13.
Silver print, the image measuring 12x15⅝ inches (30.5x39.7 cm.), with Giacomelli’s signature in ink, and the date and notation #13 in pencil on verso. 1956; printed late 1970s-early 80s
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Aaron siskind (1903-1991)
Gloucester.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7¾ inches (22.9x17.8 cm.), flush mounted. 1944
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Aaron siskind (1903-1991)
Jerome, Arizona.
Silver print, the image measuring 17⅝x13⅛ inches (44.8x33.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Siskind's signature, title, and negative date in ink on recto. 1949; printed 1970s
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Harry callahan (1912-1999)
Eleanor.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅝x9⅝ inches (19.4x24.4 cm.), the mount 12½x14½ inches (31.8x36.8 cm.), with Callahan’s signature in pencil on mount recto. 1948; printed 1960s
Provenance: Acquired directly from the Photographer by the Present Owner in the Western United States
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Brett weston (1911-1993)
School Desk Detail.
Silver print, the image measuring 10⅜x13½ inches (26.4x34.3 cm.), the mount 15x18 inches (38.1x45.7 cm.), with Weston’s signature and date in pencil on mount recto and his signature, numeric notation, and date also in pencil on mount verso. 1952
Merle Armitage, Brett Weston Photographer (Weyhe Publisher, 1956), pl. 80 (In this early publication the work is titled School Desk Supports.)
Mary Murray, In Pursuit of Form: Sculpture and Photographs by Brett Weston (Monterey Museum of Art, 2002), fig. 36 (catalogue for exhibition, July 27-October 6, 2002)
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Brett weston (1911-1993)
Reeds in pond.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅝x9½ inches (19.4x24.1 cm.), the mount 13¼x15 inches (33.6x38.1 cm.), with Weston’s signature and date in pencil on mount recto, and a numeric notation also in pencil on mount verso. 1956; printed circa 1970
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Harry callahan (1912-1999)
Aix-en-Provence, France.
Silver print, the image measuring 6½x8¼ inches (16.5x20.9 cm.), the mount 10⅛x11⅜ inches (25.7x28.9 cm.), with Callahan’s signature in pencil on mount recto. 1957
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Ralph eugene meatyard (1925-1972)
Untitled (I-Cross).
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x8 inches (19.1x20.3 cm.), with Madelyn O. Meatyard’s signature in ink, and the title and date in pencil on verso. Circa 1959
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Ruth bernhard (1905-2006)
Two Leaves.
Silver print, the image measuring 13⅝x10½ inches (34.6x26.7 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 in pencil on mount verso. 1952; printed 1990s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Paul caponigro (1932- )
Surf and Eroded Rock, Cape Kiwanda, Oregon.
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. 1959; printed 1960s
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Wynn bullock (1902-1975)
Under the Wharf.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9½ inches (17.8x22.9 cm.), the mount 13¼x15 inches (33.6x38.1 cm.), with Bullock’s signature and date in ink on mount recto, and his title, date, and inventory number in ink on mount verso. 1969
Provenance: Acquired directly from the Photographer by the Present Owner in the Western United States
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Paul caponigro (1932- )
Ireland.
Silver print, the image measuring 4⅝x6½ inches (11.7x16.5 cm.), the mount 10½x13½ inches (26.7x34.3 cm.), with Caponigro’s signature in pencil on mount recto, and again with the title and negative date in pencil, a Photographic Studies Workshop Print label and the location “Aughrim County” in pencil in an unknown hand on mount verso. 1966
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Paul caponigro (1932- )
Stonehenge, Wiltshire.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x13¼ inches (24.1x33 cm.), the mount 17x21 inches (43.2x53.3 cm.), with Caponigro’s signature and edition notation 13/60 in pencil on mount recto. 1967; printed 1970s
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
George a. tice (1938- )
Oak Tree, Holmdel, New Jersey.
Palladium print, the image measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), the mount 14x17 inches (35.6x43.2 cm.), with Tice’s block-lettered signature in pencil on mount recto, and his title, date, and printing notations also in pencil on mount verso. 1970
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Aaron siskind (1903-1991)
The Tree (Martha’s Vineyard).
Silver print, the image measuring 10¼ inches (25.4 cm.) square, the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Siskind’s signature, title, and date in ink on recto. 1972
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Harry callahan (1912-1999)
Cape Cod.
Silver print, the image measuring 9⅛ inches (23.2 cm.) square, the sheet 11x12 inches (27.9x30.5 cm.), with Callahan’s signature in pencil on recto. 1972
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Allen ginsberg (1926-1997)
Lafcadio & Peter Orlovsky, San Francisco.
Silver print, the image measuring 11⅞x17⅞ inches (30.2x45.4 cm.), the sheet 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with the Allen Ginsberg Trust stamp with Trustee Bob Rosenthal’s signature and edition notation 1/25 in pencil on verso. 1956; printed after 1997
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Robert frank (1924-2019)
Backyard–Venice West, California.
Silver print, the image measuring 8x12 inches (20.3x30.5 cm), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm), with Frank’s signature, title, and negative date in ink on recto, and his copyright stamp with his credit in ink, and the title, The Americans citation, and archive number in pencil on verso. 1956; printed 1970s
Robert Frank, The Americans (Grove Press, New York, 1959), unpaginated. (In the later Scalo edition, this work is reproduced on p. 86)
Estimate
$6,000 – $8,000
Robert frank (1924-2019)
Washington, D.C.
Silver print, the image measuring 17x14 inches (43.2x35.6 cm.), with Frank’s signature, title, and date in ink on recto. 1956
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
Portraits of Artists
Manuel álvarez bravo (1902-2002)
Frida Kahlo with Globe.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7¼ inches (24.1x18.4 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. 1930s; printed 1980s
Estimate
$7,000 – $10,000
Lotte jacobi (1896-1990)
Self-portrait.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅜x9⅞ inches (17.8x22.9 cm.), with Jacobi's signature in pencil on recto. Circa 1940s; printed early 1970s
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Henri cartier-bresson (1908-2004)
Henri Matisse, Vence, France.
Silver print, the image measuring 9⅜x14¼ inches (23.8x36.2 cm.), the sheet 12x16 inches (30.5x40.6 cm.), with Cartier-Bresson’s signature in ink on recto. 1944; printed 1970s
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Barbara morgan (1900-1992)
Martha Graham - Letter to the World (Kick).
Silver print, the image measuring 12¾x9⅜ inches (32.4x23.8 cm), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm), with Morgan’s signature and negative date in ink on recto, and her signature, title, and negative and print dates in ink on verso. 1940; printed 1986
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Arnold newman (1918-2006)
Igor Stravinsky.
Silver print, the image measuring 10x18¾ inches (25.4x45.7 cm.), the sheet 15¾x19¾ inches (38.1x48.3 cm.), the mount slightly larger, with Newman’s signature, title, and negative date in pencil on recto, and his copyright stamp on verso. 1946; printed 1980s
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Ansel adams (1902-1984)
Portrait of Henry Miller.
Silver print, the image measuring 12¼x10 inches (30.5x25.4 cm.), the mount 14½x11⅞ inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Miller’s signature, date, and inscription in ink on mount recto, and Adams’ San Francisco stamp (BMFA 4) with the negative number in ink and a “For reproduction only” stamp on mount verso. Circa 1959; printed before 1962
Provenance: Gift from the writer Henry Miller to H. Drew Crosby, lesbian book collector and owner of the bookshop Alicorn Books; to the Present Owner
Helen Drew Crosby (1911–1996) was an inveterate book collector who in her later years owned an Irish bookshop, Alicorn Books, in the Sunset District in San Francisco. Over the years, she amassed a vast collection of queer books and ephemera, including an amazing Henry Miller and lesbian pulps collection.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Arthur lavine (1922-2016)
Helen Gee, Limelight Gallery Opening, Joseph Breitenbach Show.
Silver print, the image measuring 9x13⅜ inches (22.9x34 cm.), with Lavine’s signature, title, date, and inventory notation in pencil, and his address credit label on verso. 1954
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Mark shaw (1921-1969)
Portrait of artist Loren MacIver (1909-1998).
Silver print, the image measuring 8x7½ inches (20.3x19.1 cm.), the sheet 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), with a credit label and a Whitney Museum of American Art photo archives label on verso. Circa 1950s
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Harry bowden (1907-1965)
Willem de Kooning.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7⅝ inches (24.1x19.4 cm.), the mount 13½x11 inches (34.3x28 cm.). 1946
This photograph was part of the exhibition Harry Bowden. Artist Out of the Mainstream at The Museum of California, Oakland, 1979
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Robert doisneau (1912-1994)
Les Pains de Picasso.
Silver print, the image measuring 11⅛x9¾ inches (28.2x24.7 cm.), the sheet 16x12 inches (40.6x30.5 cm.), with Doisneau’s (faded) signature in ink on recto, and his initials, title, negative and print dates, and edition notation 4/4 in ink on verso. 1952; printed 1980
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Yousuf karsh (1908-2002)
Georgia O’Keeffe.
Silver print, the image measuring 23⅞x19 inches (60.6x48.3 cm.), the mount 30x24 inches (76.2x61 cm.), with Karsh’s signature in ink and the edition notation 9/100 in pencil on mount recto. 1956; printed 1980s
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Philippe halsman (1906-1979)
Dalí Skull (In Voluptas Mors).
Silver print, the image measuring 13¼x10½ inches (33.6x26.7 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Halsman’s signature and notation “N.Y.” in ink on mount recto, and his notation “Printed by Philippe Halsman October 1975” in ink, and his copyright stamp on mount verso. 1951; printed 1975
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Cecil beaton (1904-1980)
Self-portrait, My Fair Lady Premiere, New York.
Silver contact print, the image measuring 7⅞x9¾ inches (20x24.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Beaton’s credit and numeric notation in the negative, and the title and printing notations in pencil and the Beaton Studio / Sotheby Parke Bernet stamp on verso. 1961
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Pepe diniz (1945- )
A portfolio titled 20 Portraits.
Complete with 20 of Diniz's sensitive portraits of artists. Silver prints, the images measuring 9½x7½ inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the mounts 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), each with Diniz's signature, title, date, and copyright in pencil on mount recto and his copyright stamp with his signature in ink on mount verso. Folio-sized gray clamshell box; the handwritten title list with Diniz's signature in ink. 1973-76
The sitters include: Paul Strand, Julie Christie, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Gloria Swanson, Richard Avedon, Robert Doisneau, Andy Warhol, Lotte Lenya, Eva Rubinstein, Fracois Truffaut, Ernest Borgnine, Brassaï, André Kertész, Charles Chaplin, Lillian Gish, Fernando Arrabal, Jacques Tati, and Norman Mailer.
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
John vachon (1914-1975)
A pair of portraits of Marilyn Monroe.
Silver prints, the images measuring 9⅝x7½ inches (24.4x19.1 cm.) and 7½x6½ inches (19.1x16.5 cm.), one with Vachon’s signature and date in ink on verso. 1953 and 1956
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Roy schatt (1909-2002)
Marilyn Monroe at the Actor’s Studio.
Ferrotyped silver print, the image measuring 7⅜x9½ inches (17.8x22.9 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Schatt’s signature and notation “vintage” in ink, and his copyright stamp and two credit address stamps on verso. 1955
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Roy decarava (1919-2009)
Portrait of the singer, actor, and activist Paul Robeson.
Photogravure, the image measuring 11⅛x8⅜ inches (28.3x21.3 cm.), the sheet 22x18 inches (55.9x45.7 cm.), with DeCarava’s signature, negative date, and edition notation 45/50 in pencil on recto. 1950; printed 1990s
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
Roy schatt (1909-2002)
Dizzy Gillespie.
Silver print, the image measuring 13½x10½ inches (33x25.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Schatt’s signature and title in ink and his credit and copyright stamps on verso. Circa 1957; printed 1980s
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Alberto korda (1928-2001)
Guerrillero Heroico (Che Guevara).
Silver print, the image measuring 14¼x16⅜inches (36.2x41.6 cm.), the sheet 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Korda’s signature in ink on recto. 1960; printed 1980s
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Osvaldo salas (1914-1992)
Che.
Silver print, the image measuring 12½x16½ inches (31.8x41.9 cm.), the sheet 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Salas’ signature, title, and negative date in ink, his copyright and the Cuba blind stamps on recto, and the Salas Estate / Havana Cuba stamp with Roberto Salas’ signature in ink on verso. 1964; printed circa 1990
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Horst p. horst (1906-1999)
Truman Capote, New York.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x7½ inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), with Horst’s signature in pencil, his credit stamp in green ink, and the date, also in pencil, in an unknown hand on verso. 1977
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Weegee [arthur fellig] (1899-1968)
Empire State Building.
Silver print, the image measuring 9⅝x7¾ inches (24.4x19.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Weegee’s “Please Credit Weegee From Photo-Representatives” and “Credit Photo by Weegee N.Y.C” stamps on verso. 1964
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Leonard freed (1929-2006)
Boys in Fire Hydrant, Harlem, New York.
Silver print, the image measuring 14⅜x9½ inches (36.5x24.1 cm.), the sheet 16⅛x12 inches (41x30.5 cm.), with Freed’s signature, location, and negative and print dates in pencil on verso. 1963; printed 1990
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Mid-Century Photography
Emmet gowin (1941- )
Boy in chair, Danville, Virginia.
Silver print, the image measuring 4¾x7⅛ inches (12x18.1 cm.), mounted to a presentation mat measuring overall 11⅛x13¼ inches (28.2x33.7 cm.). 1963
Provenance: Emmet Gowin to Kuhn Caldwell, his college roommate. The print is accompanied by an emailed letter from Gowin to Richard Hartz, Caldwell’s husband.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Emmet gowin (1941- )
Beautiful Star Christian Church, Richmond, Virginia.
Silver print, the image measuring 6x9 inches (15.2x23 cm.), mounted to a presentation mat measuring overall 12½x15 inches (31.7 38 cm.). 1964
Provenance: Emmet Gowin to Kuhn Caldwell, his college roommate. The print is accompanied by an emailed letter from Gowin to Richard Hartz, Caldwell’s husband.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Dave heath.
A Dialogue with Solitude.
Foreword by Hugh Edwards and a letter from Robert Frank. Illustrated with numerous reproductions of Heath's important photographs. Tall 4to, black-stamped gray cloth; photo-pictorial dust jacket; enclosed in a gray slipcase. ONE OF 100 SIGNED AND NUMBERED COPIES ISSUED WITH A PHOTOGRAVURE.
(Toronto): (Lumiere Press), (2000)
WITH--Vengeful Sister. Dust-grained photogravure on Lana Gravure paper, the image measuring 5⅛x6⅜ inches (13x16.2 cm.), the sheet 12¼x9 inches (31.1x23 cm.), with Heath's signature and edition notation 28/100 in pencil; enclosed in a board folder with the printed information on the front and the edition information facing the image. 1956; printed 2000
For reproductions of Vengeful Sister see: Keith F. Davis, Multitude/Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath (Hall Family Foundation in Association with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2015), p. 208
Estimate
$600 – $900
Dave heath (1931-2016)
Boy leaning on arm.
Silver print, the image measuring 4x5¼ inches (10.2x13.3 cm.), the sheet 5x7 inches (12.7x17.8 cm.), with Heath’s signature in ink on recto and the notation “From Portfolio ‘63, Masterprint 1963 Boston, Mass” in pencil on verso. 1963
Provenance: The Photographer; The Collected Image, Evanston, Illinois, as agent to the Present Owner
Dave Heath, Portfolio 63, Contemporary Photography, From The Human Condition A Guggenheim Fellowship Project (1963), np
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Carl mydans (1907-2004)
On the 6:25 from Grand Central to Stamford, November 22, 1963.
Silver print, the image measuring 12¼x17¼ inches (31.1x43.8 cm.), the sheet 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Mydans’ signature in ink on recto, and his credit, title, negative and print dates, and the Time Warner Inc. copyright credit in pencil, in an unknown hand, and a limitation stamp with the edition notation 26/50 + 10, on verso. 1963; printed 1992
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
(the assassination of john f. kennedy)
A pair of photographs documenting the slaying of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby.
Silver prints, the images measuring 7½x9¼ inches (19.1x23.5 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, each with a numeric notation (including #6 and #7) in ink on recto, and a United Press stamp on verso; one also with a photocopy of a press slug listing the sequence of images captured (this one circled #6 “Ruby points a gun at Oswald,” the other #7 is captioned “Ruby drives it into his ribs and fires one shot. Oswald slumps, while a policeman who has seen the assailant shouts, ‘Jack, you son of a bitch.’”). 1963
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
(diane arbus, lee friedlander, garry winogrand)
A pamphlet from the iconic New Documents exhibition.
A pristine tri-folded pamphlet printed with red text and reproductions of work from each of the three photographers featured in the show, all then relatively unknown. First shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, this pamphlet corresponds to the touring show, and which included a total of 60 works. With an introduction from curator John Szarkowski, a short biographical note on each photographer, and a full exhibition checklist. 1967
In his introduction Szarkowski writes: “Most of those who were called documentary photographers a generation ago, when the label was new, made their pictures in the service of a social cause. It was their aim to show what was wrong with the world, and to persuade their fellows to take action and make it right.
In the past decade a new generation of photographers has directed the documentary approach toward more personal ends. Their aim has been not to reform life, but to know it. Their work betrays a sympathy–almost an affection–for the imperfections and the frailties of society. They like the real world, in spite of its terrors, as the source of all wonder and fascination and value, and find it no less precious for being irrational.”
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Lee friedlander (1934- )
New York City.
Silver print, the image measuring 8¼x12½ inches (21x31.8 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Friedlander’s signature, title, and negative date in pencil, and his copyright stamp, on verso. 1964; printed 1970s
Provenance: Robert Mann Gallery, New York; to the Present Owner
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Lee friedlander (1934- )
Statue, New Jersey.
Silver print, the image measuring 6⅝x10 inches (16.8x25.4 cm.), the mount 15½x20 inches (39.4x50.8 cm.), with Friedlander's signature and edition notation 63/75 in pencil on mount recto. 1970; printed 1973
From the portfolio Fifteen Photographs published by Double Elephant in 1974. The prints were made by Friedlander.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Garry winogrand (1928-1984)
Circle Line Statue of Liberty Ferry, New York.
Silver print, the image measuring 8⅝x13 inches (21.9x33 cm.), the mount 14¾x19¾ inches (37.5x50.2 cm.), with Winogrand’s signature and edition notation 45/75 in pencil on mount recto. Circa 1968; printed 1974
From the portfolio Fifteen Photographs published by Double Elephant in 1974 and titled there Staten Island Ferry. The prints were made by Winogrand and Richard Benson.
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Garry winogrand (1928-1984)
A selection of 10 photographs from the series Women are Beautiful.
Silver prints, the images measuring 8¾x13⅛ inches (22.2x33.3 cm), the sheets 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm), each with Winogrand’s signature and the edition notation 29/80 in pencil on verso. 1960s-70s; printed circa 1980
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Henry wessel (1942-2018)
Untitled (from the Waikiki Beach, Hawaii series).
Silver print, the image measuring 14⅞x9⅞ inches (37.8x25 cm.), the sheet 17x14 inches (43.2x35.6 cm.), with Wessel’s signature, date, and inventory notations in pencil on recto. 1979
Provenance: Acquired directly from the Photographer by the Present Owner in the Western United States
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Bruce davidson (1933- )
Father and Son, Pinedale, Wyoming.
Selenium-toned silver print, the image measuring 10x12⅞ inches (25.4x32.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, a Davidson/Magnum label with Davidson’s signature and edition notation 4/15 in ink on verso. 1966; printed 2003
This photograph was produced from an original negative belonging to Bruce Davidson. The limited edition of 15 prints was printed for the International Center of Photography’s Benefactor Patrons in 2003.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Malick sidibé (1935-2016)
Suprise party les Beatles-club.
Silver print, the image measuring 8¼x5⅝ inches (21x14.3 cm.), the sheet 9½x7 inches (24.1x17.8 cm.), with Sidibé’s signature, initials, title, and print date in ink on recto. 1969; printed 2013
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Danny lyon (1942- )
Near Yuma, California.
Silver print, the image measuring 8¾x12⅞ inches (20.3x30.5 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Lyon’s signature in pencil on verso. 1962; printed circa 1980s
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Danny lyon (1942- )
Crossing the Ohio at Louisville, from The Bikeriders.
Silver print, the image measuring 9⅛x12 inches (22.9x30.5 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Lyon’s signature and title and negative date in ink on recto, and his Bleak Beauty stamp with his initialed printer’s credit and dates in pencil on verso. 1966; printed 1987
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
Danny lyon (1942- )
Ramsey Prison Farm, Texas.
Silver print, the image measuring 8½x12½ inches (21.3x31.7 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Lyon’s signature, title, and negative date in pencil on verso. 1968; printed circa 1990
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Danny lyon (1942- )
Clearing Land, Ellis Unit.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x11 inches (19x27.9 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, the mount 13¾x16¾ inches (34.9x42.5 cm.), with Lyon's signature in pencil on mount recto. 1967-69; printed 1970s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Danny lyon (1942- )
A portfolio of 40 Civil Rights photographs.
Including numerous important images Lyon made while working as a staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Silver prints, the images measuring 12¾x8¾ inches (32.4x22.2 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), each with Lyon’s signature in pencil and his Bleak Beauty stamp with Chuck Kelton’s printer’s credit and the dates in pencil, on verso. Small folio-sized black box; the printed introduction and colophon with Lyon’s signature in pencil and the edition information. ARTIST’S PROOF. Bleak Beauty Books, 1962-64; printed 2010
Estimate
$25,000 – $35,000
(news pictures of the year)
A file from Texas Magazine containing 33 News Pictures of the Year from the tumultuous 1960s.
The file includes the results of the 21st annual “Pictures of the Year” competition, sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association, the University of Missouri School of Journalism, and the World Book Encyclopedia. The images span the full gamut from unusual and charming events to political figures to disasters to war and protest to sports. Silver prints, many ferrotyped, the images measuring 9½x7¾ inches (24.1x19.7 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, one 13½x10¾ inches (34.3x27.3 cm.), 14 with captions in the sheet, each with a Chronicle Files stamp, some with other press stamps, some with a press clipping or slug, and/or other notations in pencil and/or ink, on verso. 1960-70
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Marc riboud (1923-2016)
Group of 10 photographs, including five from Russia, three related to the Kasai famine, one from Ghana, and one from Guinea.
Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 6½x9⅜ inches (16.5x23.8 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), two with Riboud’s stamp, eight with a caption label with Riboud’s credit, and each with a combination of press and date stamps, caption labels or press clippings, and/or notations in pencil or ink, on verso. 1961-63
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
(magnum photographers)
A dynamic group of 55 Magnum Edition Square Prints.
The group includes Weegee, Danny Lyon, Susan Meiselas, Thomas Hoepker, Eli Reed, Leonard Freed, Dawoud Bey, and many others. Archival chromogenic prints, the images measuring 5½x5¼ inches (14x13.3 cm.), and smaller, and the reverse, the sheets 6 inches (15.2 cm.) square, two with the photographers’ signatures on recto, each with the photographer’s signature, a typed title, and an artist’s statement on a Magnum or a Magnum/Aperture, or a Magnum/ICP label, and some with an Estate stamp on verso. 1939-2018; printed 2000s
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
(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 62 (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
$6,000 – $9,000
W. eugene smith (1918-1978)
Saipan (soldier holding baby).
Silver print, the image measuring 17½x13¾ inches (43.2x33 cm.), flush mounted, with Smith’s Estate stamp on mount verso. 1944; printed 1970s
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Nick ut (1945- )
The Terror of War, Children fleeing napalm attack, South Vietnam.
Silver press print, the image measuring 7x8⅝ inches (17.8x20.3 cm.), the sheet 7¾x10⅛ inches (17.8x25.4 cm.), with the wire service caption in the sheet on recto, and a date stamp on verso. 1972; printed 1973
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Édouard boubat (1923-1999)
Indian Mother and Child, Madras.
Silver print, the image measuring 8⅜x5½ inches (21.3x14 cm.), the sheet 11¾x9⅜ inches (29.8x23.8 cm.), with Boubat’s signature in ink on recto. 1971; printed 1980s
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Emmet gowin (1941- )
Edith, Newton, Pennsylvania.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅛x8½ inches (17.8x20.3 cm.), the sheet 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), with Gowin’s signature, title, negative and print dates, and printing notations in pencil on verso. 1974
Provenance: Acquired directly from the Photographer by the Present Owner in the Western United States
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Nicholas nixon (1947- )
Heather Brown, Mimi Brown, Bebe Brown Nixon, Laurie Brown, Harwich Port, MA.
Silver contact print, the image measuring 7⅝x9⅝ inches (17.8x22.9 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Nixon’s signature, title, date, and inventory notations in pencil on verso. 1978
Provenance: Acquired directly from the Photographer by the Present Owner in the Western United States
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Mark cohen (1943- )
Torso, New York City.
Silver print, the image measuring 11⅞x17¾ inches (27.9x43.2 cm.), the sheet 16x20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm.), with Cohen’s signature, negative and print dates, and the location New York City in pencil on verso. 1973; printed 1978
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Peter hujar (1934-1987)
Male Nude.
Silver print, the image measuring 14¾ inches (35.6 cm.) square, the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Hujar's signature, date, and inscription "For Rene" in ink on verso. 1978
Provenance: Gifted by the Artist to Rene Ricard; to the Present Owner
Estimate
$12,000 – $18,000
Peter hujar (1934-1987)
Portrait of Anne Burritt.
Silver print, the image measuring 14¾ inches (37.5 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Hujar’s signature, title, date, numeric notation 932-3-6, and edition notation 4/15 in ink on verso. 1981
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Peter hujar (1934-1987)
Himself.
Silver print, the image measuring 14¾ inches (37.5 cm.) square, the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Hujar’s signature, title, and date in ink on verso. 1981
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
William clift (1944- )
A group of 4 interiors from the County Courthouses portfolio.
Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 13x16½ inches (33x41.9 cm.), and one smaller, and the reverse, the mounts 22x27 inches (55.9x68.6 cm.), and one smaller, three with Clift’s signature in pencil on mount recto, and the smaller one with Clift’s signature, title, and inventory notation in pencil on mount verso. Circa 1974-79; printed 1980s
Jury Chairs, Warren County Courthouse, Warrenton, Missouri, 1979 *Rotunda, Old St. Louis County Court House, St. Louis.,1976-77 * Judge’s Bench, Old Cochise County Court house, Tombstone, Arizona., 1979 * Exhibition cases, Bent County Court House, Las Animas, Colorado, circa 1974-77
Provenance: Phillips, New York, The Seagram Collection of Photographs, April 26, 2003; to the Present Owner
For the celebration of the U.S. Bicentennial, Joseph E. Seagram & Sons Inc. commissioned two dozen photographers to record county court houses across the country. This project was developed and executed between 1975 and 1981, and these prints were made for the Seagram Collection.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Jerry uelsmann (1934-2022)
Self-Portrait as Robinson & Rejlander.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x8 inches (19.1x20.3 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Uelsmann’s initials, title, and date in pencil on mount recto, and his signature, title, and date in ink, and his address stamp on mount verso. 1964
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Jerry uelsmann (1934-2022)
Untitled (room with forest and face in globe).
Silver print, the image measuring 10½x12¾ inches (25.4x32.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Uelsmann’s signature, title, and date in ink and his copyright stamp with the date in ink, on print verso; in a mat measuring 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Uelsmann’s initials and date in pencil on the overmat and a typed label, his signature, title, and date in ink, and copyright stamp with the date in ink on verso. 1982
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Joel-peter witkin (1939- )
Sins of Juan Miro.
Silver print, the image measuring 14⅝ inches (37.1 cm.) square, the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Witkin’s signature, title, date, and edition notation 14/15 in pencil on verso. 1981
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
O. winston link (1914-2001)
Hotshot Eastbound, Iaeger, West Virginia.
Silver print, the image measuring 15½x19½ inches (39.4x49.5 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Link’s signature, printing credit, print date, negative notation NW 1103, and additional printing notations in pencil, and his copyright stamp with the negative notation in ink, on verso. 1957; printed 1984
Estimate
$7,000 – $10,000
O. winston link (1914-2001)
Washing J Class 605, Shaffers Crossing Yards, Roanoke, Virginia.
Silver print, the image measuring 19⅜x15⅝ inches (48.3x38.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Link’s signature, print date, negative notation NW 13, and additional printing notations in pencil, and his copyright stamp, also with the negative notation in pencil, on verso. 1955; printed 1999
Estimate
$2,500 – $4,000
O. winston link (1914-2001)
B&O William Mason in Baltimore.
Silver print, the image measuring 18⅞x15½ inches (48x39.4 cm.), with Link’s OWL stamp and his title, negative notation BO 8, and date in pencil, on verso. 1958
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
O. winston link (1914-2001)
N&W Extra Eastbound to Blue Ridge, VA.
Silver print, the image measuring 15¼x19¼ inches (38.7x49 cm.), with Link’s OWL stamp and his extended title, negative notation NW 1652, and date in pencil, on verso. 1958
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
O. winston link (1914-2001)
Birmingham Special, Rural Retreat.
Silver print, the image measuring 15⅝x19½ inches (38.1x48.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Link’s signature, negative notation NW 1635, and printing notations in pencil, and the THG stamp with an inventory notation in pencil on verso. 1957; printed 1980s
Provenance: The Collection of Thomas H. Garver; acquired directly from The Artist
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
O. winston link (1914-2001)
Swimming Pool, Welch, West Virginia.
Silver print, the image measuring 15½x19¼ inches (38.1x48.3 cm.), with Link’s signature, printer’s credit, print date, negative notation NW 1963, and additional printing notations in pencil and his copyright stamp, also with the negative notation in ink, and dated copyright stamp, on verso. 1958; printed 1986
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Ansel adams (1902-1984)
Siesta Lake, Yosemite National Park, California.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9½ inches (17.8x22.9 cm.), the mount 14x18 inches (35.6x45.7 cm.), with Adams’ signature in pencil on mount recto, and his Portfolio Four “What Majestic Word” label with the set number E.V. in red ink on mount verso. Circa 1958; printed 1963
Ansel Adams, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1981), Portfolio IV, pl. 12
Ansel Adams, Yosemite and the range of Light (Little, Brown and Company, 1979), p.78
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Ansel adams (1902-1984)
Autumn Storm near Penasco, New Mexico.
Silver print, the image measuring 10⅛x12¼ inches (25.7x31.1 cm.), the mount 14x18 inches (35.6x45.7 cm.), with Adams’ signature in pencil on mount recto, and his Carmel stamps (BMFA 7 and 8) with the title and negative date in ink on mount verso. 1959; printed 1963-70
Ansel Adams, Photographs of the Southwest (Little, Brown and Company, 1976), pl. 105
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
Ansel adams (1902-1984)
Sunset, Timber Cove Inn, California.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x11⅛ inches (24.1x28.3 cm.), the mount 14x18 inches (35.6x45.7 cm.), with Adams’ signature in ink on mount recto, and his Timber Cove Inn stamp with the title in ink on mount verso. Circa 1960
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Alfred eisenstaedt (1898-1995)
Tree Lined Road, Delft, Holland.
Silver print, the image measuring 15⅝x10¾ inches (38.1x25.5 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Eisenstaedt’s signature in ink on recto, and his credit, title, negative and print dates, and the Time Inc. copyright in pencil, and an edition stamp with the edition notation 11/50 +10, on verso. 1978; printed 1991
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Brett weston (1911-1993)
Hawaii portfolio from the Honolulu Academy of Arts with 4 photographs.
Including three detailed studies of fauna and one landscape. Silver prints, the images measuring 13⅛x10⅝ inches (33.3x27 cm.), one slightly smaller, and two the reverse, the mounts 18x15 inches (45.7x38.1 cm.), each with Weston’s signature in pencil on mount recto and a Honolulu Academy of Arts/Brett Weston Archive stamp authenticating the work with Christian Keesee’s signature and a date in pencil on mount verso; each are matted. Folio-sized black gray-stamped clamshell box; the colophon with text and the Archive information, including a Statement of Authenticity; contents loose as issued. Brett Weston Archive/Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1978-91
Provenance: The Photographer; to the Brett Weston Archives; to Collector Christian Keesee; to the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, 1978-1991; to the Present Owner
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Richard misrach (1949- )
Bomber #2, Phoenix, Arizona.
Split-toned silver print, the image measuring 15 inches (38.1 cm.) square, the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Misrach’s signature and date in pencil on recto, and his signature, title, and date again in pencil on verso. 1975
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Robert adams (1937- )
A Backyard, Pike’s Peak, Colorado.
Silver print, the image measuring 5¾ inches (14.6 cm.) square, the mount 13x11 inches (33x27.9 cm.), with Adams’ signature, title, and date in pencil, his 3845 Dudley St. Colorado stamp, and further printing notations in pencil on mount verso. 1968-71
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
Robert adams (1937- )
Bulldozed Slash, Tillamook County, Oregon.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅛x8⅞ inches (18x22.5 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Adams’ signature and copyright stamp with the print date in pencil on verso. 1976; printed 1980
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Frank gohlke (1942- )
Badminton net, fog on Lake Superior, near Grand Marais, Minnesota.
Silver print, the image measuring 10⅞x13⅞ inches (27.6x35.2 cm.), the sheet 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Gohlke’s signature, title, negative and print dates, and a dedication note in pencil on verso. 1977; printed 1980
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Robert mapplethorpe (1946-1989)
Wheat.
Silver print, the image measuring 13¾ inches (33 cm.) square, the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), flush mounted, with Mapplethorpe’s signature, date, and edition notation 2/10 in ink on recto, and his copyright/limitation reproduction stamp with his signature and date in ink on mount verso. 1979; printed 1980
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Andy warhol (1928-1987)
Portrait of Robert Mapplethorpe.
Unique Polaroid Polacolor type 108, the image measuring 3¾x2⅞ inches (9.5x7.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger. 1983
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
Andy warhol (1928-1987)
Self-Portrait in a photo booth.
Silver print, the image measuring 1⅞x1½ inches (4.8x3.8 cm.). 1963
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Diane arbus (1923-1971)
Lucas Samaras, N.Y.C.
Silver print, the image measuring 10¾ inches (25.4 cm.) square, the mount 20x15 inches (50.8x38.1 cm.), with a “Print by Diane Arbus” Estate stamp with an inventory number and Doon Arbus’ signature in ink, and two Estate Copyright stamps with the date 1966 in ink on mount verso; accompanied by a certificate of authenticity written and signed by Doon Arbus. 1966
Provenance: The Estate of Mel Tomback (owner of Total Color printers in New York); to a Private Collection, New York
Total Color was a commercial printing firm that made some of the early offset lithographs for major artists in the 1960s. Examples of well-known works printed by Total Color include Andy Warhol’s Flowers and Liz in 1964 and Roy Lichtenstein’s Brushstroke and Shipboard Girl in 1965.
Total Color also did commercial work making catalogues, invitations, and other ephemera for some of the leading galleries in New York during the 1960s and 70s. They did work for Richard Feigan Gallery, Castelli Gallery, and Pace Gallery, which represented Lucas Samaras.
This image was also printed posthumously by Neil Selkirk in an edition of 75 which is in museum collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Morgan Library.
References: Arbus, Diane, “Not to Be Missed: The American Art Scene,” Harper’s Bazaar (July 1966), [p. 82]; Arbus, Doon, and Marvin Israel, ed., Diane Arbus: Magazine Work (Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, 1984), p. 82; Diane Arbus: Revelations (New York: Random House, 2003), p. 179
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Edward ruscha.
Colored People * Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass.
Together, 2 of Ruscha’s iconic self-published titles. Colored People is a first edition and signed by Ruscha. Each illustrated with color reproductions of photographs of cacti and pools. 8vos, yellow wrappers and black-printed white wrappers. Hasselblad 198. ONE FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY RUSCHA.
Estimate
$600 – $900
Lou stoumen (1917-1991)
Times Square.
Silver print, the image measuring 12x9 inches (30.5x23 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Stoumen’s signature and date in ink on recto, and his signature, title, and date in pencil on verso. 1979
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$1,400 – $1,800
Ken schles (1960- )
Sumer.
Silver print, the image measuring 18⅞x13 inches (48x33 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Schles' signature, title, date, and edition notation "print #3" in pencil on verso. 1984
WITH--Ken Schles. Invisible City. Illustrated with reproductions of Schles' gritty photographs of New York City, including this work. 8vo, dark blue debossed cloth; photo-pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY SCHLES IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. (Pasadena, California): (Twelvetress Press), (1988)
Accompanied by a letter certifying the printing signed by Schles.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Louis stettner (1922-2016)
Place Saint-Augustin, Paris.
Silver print, the image measuring 10⅛ inches (25.4 cm.) square, the sheet 14½x12 inches (35.6x30.5 cm.), with Stettner’s blind stamp on recto, and his signature, title, and date in pencil on verso. 1993
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Louis stettner (1922-2016)
Rainy Day on Wall Street, Constitutional Hall, London.
Silver print, the image measuring 8x12 inches (20.3x30.5 cm.), the sheet 10½x13¾ inches (25.4x33 cm.), with Stettner’s blind stamp on recto, and his signature, title, and date in pencil on verso. 1986
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Ruth bernhard (1905-2006)
Perspective II.
Silver print, the image measuring 11¾x19½ inches (29.8x49.5 cm.), the mount 20x24 inches (50.8x61 cm.), with Bernhard’s signature in pencil on mount recto and her signature, title, and negative date in pencil on mount verso. 1967; printed 1990s
Ruth Bernhard, Ruth Bernhard: Eternal Body (Photography West Graphics), cover and pl. 26
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Brett weston (1911-1993)
Underwater Nude.
Silver print, the image measuring 13½x10¼ inches (34.3x26 cm.), the mount 18x15 inches (45.7x38.1 cm.), with Weston’s signature and date in pencil on mount recto. 1978
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Jack welpott (1923-2007)
Sabine.
Platinum print, the image measuring 9¾x7¾ inches (24.8x19.7 cm.), the sheet 14½x11⅝ inches (36.8x29.5 cm.), with Welpott’s signature, title, and negative date in ink on recto. 1972
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Jerry schatzberg (1927- )
Betsy Pickering on Wall Street, New York, Vogue.
Silver print, the image measuring 15½ inches (39.4 cm.) square, the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Schatzberg’s signature, title, negative date, and notation J 12/58 in pencil, and a copyright stamp on verso. 1958; printed 2000s
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Horst p. horst (1906-1999)
Woman in veil (fashion campaign).
Silver print, the image measuring 15½ inches (39.4 cm.) square, the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Horst’s signature in ink on recto, and his credit stamp on verso. Circa 1950s; printed 1980s
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Helmut newton (1920-2004)
Upstairs at Maxim’s, Paris.
Silver print, the image measuring 14¼x9½ inches (35.6x22.9 cm.), the sheet 16x12 inches (40.6x30.5 cm.), with Newton’s signature, title, and negative date in pencil, his Monte Carlo copyright stamp, and his signature and an inscription also in pencil, on verso. 1978; printed circa 1999
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Bruce weber (1946- )
Jeff Aquilon.
Silver print, the image measuring 12⅝x8⅜ inches (32x21.3 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.5x27.9 cm.), with Weber’s copyright stamp and his credit, the model’s name, date, and additional publication notations in pencil and blue pencil on verso. 1979
This image was published in Interview magazine, March 1979, p. 19
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Bruce weber (1946- )
Claudia, room 700, Copacabana Palace, Rio.
Silver print, the image measuring 23¼x19⅜ inches (59x49.2 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Weber’s signature, title, date, edition notation 5/5, and printing notations in pencil on verso. 1986
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Herb ritts (1952-2002)
Female Nude with Black Sand, Hawaii.
Silver print, the image measuring 18½x15⅛ inches (45.7x38.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Ritts’ blind stamp on recto, and his signature, title, date, and edition notation 12/25 in pencil on verso. 1989
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Larry clark.
Tulsa * Teenage Lust.
(New York): [Lustrum Press], [1979] & (New York): (1983)
Together, 2 of Clark’s key titles. Each illustrated with reproductions of his provocative photographs. Folios, the first silver-stamped black cloth with a photo-pictorial dust jacket; the second photo-pictorial wrappers. Roth 244. FIRST EDITIONS, THE FIRST SIGNED AND EDITIONED 131/400 BY CLARK.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Peter beard (1938-2020)
Halloween, Hog Ranch.
Beard’s full caption reads: From “Longing for Darkness” + Karen Blixen’s photo collection / Bogani house 1921 / Thomas Dinesen Shirt from Boganis / Pawnee Indians 1860s Minnesota / 2 Cattle Killers shot on Karen Farm from Ndevu files to P.R. Sandy on Halloween 1983. Hog Ranch, Box 4191 Nairobi. Silver print, the image measuring 8x13¼ inches (20.3x33.6 cm.), with Beard’s extended caption and date in ink, on recto. 1983
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Color Photography
Harry callahan (1912-1999)
Chicago (red apples).
Dye transfer print, the image measuring 10⅜x15¾ inches (25.4x38.1 cm.), the sheet 17x21 inches (43.2x53.3 cm.), with Callahan’s signature in pencil on recto. Circa 1951; printed circa 1980
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Eliot porter (1901-1990)
A pair of photographs from the series China.
Dye transfer prints, the images measuring approximately 9¾x14 inches (24.8x35.6 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets 14x19 inches (35.6x48.3 cm.), each with Porter’s signature in ink on recto. 1980; printed 1984
Estimate
$1,400 – $1,800
Joel meyerowitz (1938- )
The Screened Porch.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 18½x23⅜ inches (45.7x58.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Meyerowitz’s signature, title, negative and print dates, and inventory notations in ink on verso. 1980; printed 1985
Reproduced in Meyerowitz’s four book of color book A Summer’s Day (Time Books, 1985), pl. 6, dedicated to the feelings, activities, and light of summer.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Joyce tenneson (1945- )
Suzanne.
Archival pigment print, the image measuring 19x16 inches (48.3x40.6 cm.), the sheet 25x19 inches (63.5x48.3 cm.), with Tenneson’s signature, print date, and edition notation 4/30 in pencil on recto. 1986; printed 1997
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Barbara kasten (1936- )
Construction PC-X.
Large-format Polaroid, the image measuring 23¾x19½ inches (60.3x49.5 cm.), the sheet 29½x22 inches (74.9x55.9 cm.), with Kasten’s signature, title, date, and edition notation 1/10 in ink on recto. 1982
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,000
Robert heinecken (1931-2006)
PP/Two Women-H.
Dye bleach photogram, the image measuring 11x8 inches (27.9x20.3 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Heinecken’s signature, title, date, and edition notation out of 3 in pencil on verso; with a Friedrich Petzel Gallery label on mat verso. 1990
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Ormond gigli (1925-2019)
Lips.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 14¼x22¾ inches (36.2x57.8 cm,), with Gigli’s signature, title, date, and edition notation 2/50 in ink on the overmat, and his signature and inscription in ink on the mat verso. 1960
Estimate
$7,000 – $10,000
Franco fontana (1933- )
Group of 11 photographs of popular Italian destinations, including multiple scenes of Venice and one of Rome.
Ilford cibachrome prints, the images measuring 8¾x13½ inches (21x34.2 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets 11¼x15¾ inches (28.6x40 cm.), each with Fontana’s signature, title or inscription, and date in ink on recto. 1983-84
An Italian photographer known for his vibrant abstractions; Fontana’s photographs were featured as album cover art for vinyl records produced by the ECM Records jazz label.
Estimate
$7,000 – $10,000
Bruce davidson (1933- )
Subway Platform.
Dye transfer print, the image measuring 6⅝x9⅝ inches (16.8x24.4 cm.), the sheet 8½x11 inches (21.6x27.9 cm.), with Davidson’s signature and edition notation 34/50 in pencil on verso; enclosed in a mat and a gray cloth boards folder. 1980; printed 2003
WITH–Bruce Davidson. Subway. A limited edition of this important work, with numerous reproductions of Davidson’s iconic color photography documenting the gritty New York City subway of the 1980s. 4to, black-stamped gray cloth, with Davidson’s signature and edition notation 34/50 in ink; in a matching slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF 50 SIGNED COPIES ISSUED WITH A PHOTOGRAPH.
(Los Angeles): (St. Ann’s Press), (2003)
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Aaron siskind (1903-1991)
Bahia.
Oversize cibachrome print, flush mounted on aluminum, the image measuring 36 inches (91.4 cm.) square, with Siskind’s signature, title, and date in ink on mount verso. 1984
Provenance: Acquired directly from the Photographer by the Current Owner, a fine art trade professional, who worked with a variety of important 20th-century photographers
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
William eggleston (1939- )
Water Valley, Mississippi.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 6¼x9¼ inches (15.2x22.9 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Eggleston’s signature in ink on recto, and again on verso. Circa 1985
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Eveyln hofer (1922-2009)
Cell door, Parkhurst Prison, England.
Dye transfer print, the image measuring 13⅛x10¼ inches (33.3x26 cm.), the mount 18x14 inches (45.7x35.6 cm.), with Hofer’s signature in pencil on mount recto and the number 12, title, and negative date in pencil on mount verso; accompanied by the original mat with Hofer’s signature, edition notation “1 of 5,” and print date in pencil. 1974; printed 1977
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Bernard plossu (1945- )
A pair of images from his early Morocco and France series.
Fresson color pigment prints, the images measuring 11¼x7¾ inches (28.6x19.7 cm.) and 10¾x7⅜ inches (27.3x18.7 cm.), each with Plossu’s signature, title, date, and the notation “print by atelier fresson” in ink on verso. 1974 and 1975
Provenance: Carlston Gallery; to a Private Collector, New York
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Stephen shore (1947- )
U.S. 1, Arundel, ME.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 14¼x18 inches (36.2x45.7 cm.), the sheet 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Shore’s signature, title, and date in ink on verso. 1974
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Stephen shore (1947- )
20th & Spruce Sts., Philadelphia, PA.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 14¼x18 inches (36.2x45.7 cm.), the sheet 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with Shore’s signature, title, and date in ink on verso. 1974
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Stephen shore (1947- )
Lily pads.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 14x18 inches (35.6x45.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Shore’s signature and edition notation 4/50 in pencil on verso. 1977; printed early 1980s
Provenance: Pace/McGill, New York; to a Private Collector, New York
This photograph was part of the exhibition The Flower as Image at Wave Hill, December 1984
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
William christenberry (1936-2016)
Horses and Black Buildings - Newbern, Alabama.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 17⅜x22 inches (44.1x56 cm.), the sheet 20x24 inches (50.8x61 cm.), with Christenberry’s signature, title, and negative and print dates in ink on verso. 1978; printed 1980
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Contemporary
Graciela iturbide (1942- )
Mujer Angel, Mexico.
Silver print, the image measuring 8½x11¾ inches (21.6x29.9 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Iturbide's signature, title, and negative date in pencil on verso. 1979; printed circa 1990
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Graciela iturbide (1942- )
Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas, Juchitán, Oaxaca, México.
Silver print, the image measuring 11¾x9¼ inches (29.8x23.5 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), with Iturbide’s signature, title, and date in pencil on verso. 1980
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Pedro meyer.
Los cohetes duraron todo el día [The rockets went on all day].
(Mexico City, Mexico): Petróleos Mexicanos, (1988)
Preface by Pedro Meyer. Introduction by Francisco Rojas G., Director General, Pemex. Profusely illustrated with Meyer’s bold journalistic photographs, commissioned by the national petroleum company Pemex to coincide with its fiftieth anniversary. However, Meyer’s socially conscious work and dedication of the volume to Lazaro Cardenas, the politically left former president who established Pemex and nationalized the oil industry, led the current government to seize existing copies and stop distribution of the volume. Small folio, gilt-lettered black cloth; photo-pictorial dust jacket, only lightly worn at the corners. Parr/Badger II 198. FIRST EDITION.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Tseng kwong chi (1950-1990)
Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
Silver print, the image measuring 15 inches (38.1 cm.) square, the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Muna Tseng’s signature, title, negative and print dates, and edition notation 2/25 in ink, and the Estate of Tseng Kwong Chi and the Muna Tseng Dance Projects Inc. stamps on verso. 1986; printed 1997
Provenance: Julie Saul Gallery, New York; to the Present Owner
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
(giacomelli; horst; metzner; salgado; uelsmann, et alia)
The Year of Tibet Portfolio I.
Assembled by Richard Gere and Bill Borden for Tibet House, New York. Introduction by Richard Gere. Complete with 12 photographs. Platinum palladium prints, the images measuring 12¾x10 inches (32.4x25.4 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets 15¾x13 inches (40x33 cm.), all but the Abbott with the photographer’s signature in pencil on recto, the former with her blind stamped initials, the Horst also with his title and date and stamp on verso, and the Metzner also with her title and initials; each with the edition notation AP 8/24 in pencil on recto; each print is enclosed in a paper folder. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 100 NUMBERED SETS AND 24 ARTIST PROOFS. Folio-sized black clamshell case; with the colophon. New York: Tibet House, 1928-90; printed 1990
Berenice Abbott, James Joyce, Paris, 1928 * Mario Giacomelli, La Gente del Sud: Scanno, 1959 * Horst P. Horst, Electric Beauty, Paris, 1939 * Annie Leibovitz, Mikhail Baryshnikov, 1990 * Matt Mahurin, Nicaragua, nd * Mary Ellen Mark, Ram Prakash Singh with his Elephant Shyama at the Golden Circus, Ahmedabad, India, 1990 * Kurt Markus, Derrick Cage, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1988 * Sheila Metzner, Man Ray Nude, 1986 * Sebastiao Salgado, First Communion in Juazeiro do Norte, Brazil, 1981 * Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1986 * Bruce Weber, Three Men in a Reflecting Pool, Santa Barbara, 1989 * Joel-Peter Witkin, Women Once a Bird, 1990
Provenance: The Collection of Sheila Metzner, New York
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
(tice, iturbide, hosoe, tress, gowin, et alia)
A portfolio with 16 photographs entitled Time, published to accompany an exhibition at Fotosphere Gallery.
Published by Benrido, the undisputed master of the process, and complete with 16 collotypes, the images measuring approximately 10x7 inches (25.4x17.8 cm.), and slightly smaller; each photographer's work printed on an individual sheet and presented accordion style in a gilt-lettered cloth folder with the photographer's printed credit and titles, and their signatures in ink or pencil on the inside front cover. Folio-sized wooden box; the colophon and introductory pages in their own folder, with the edition number HC III/XII (the larger unsigned edition was 300); contents loose as issued; in the original cardboard box with a chemise. ONE OF 12 SIGNED HORS COMMERCE COPIES. Kyoto, Japan: Benrido & Fotosphere, 2005
Emmet Gowin i. Pivot Irrigation near the One Hundred Circle Farm and the McNary Dam on the Columbia River, Washington, 1991 and ii. The Edge of the Salton Sea, California, 1990 * Eikoh Hosoe i. Ordeal by Roses No. 29, 1962 and ii. Ordeal by Roses No. 16, 1961 * Graciela Iturbide i. Perros Perdidos, Rajasthan, India, 1997 and ii. Cementario, Juchitan, Oaxaca, 1988 * Koichiro Kurita i. Atmosphere / Dark Cloud, 1987 and ii. Hydrosphere / Fall, 1991 * John Pfahl i. Fat Man Atmoic Bomb / Great Gallery Pictographs and ii. B-58 Hustler Pop / Galisteo Basin Petroglyphs * Ryuji Taira i. VICISSITUDES / Tanpopo No. 1 and ii. VCISSITUDES / Insects on Seeds * George Tice i. Urban Landscapes / Ferry Slip, Jersey City, New Jersey, August, 1979 and ii. Urban Landscapes / Petit's Mobil Station, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, November, 1974 * Arthur Tress i. And ultimately you'll be as free as the newborn babe who takes to water instinctively. and ii. Life bloomed and evolved / With miraculous flair, leaving behind ooze / For fresh light and air. With great effort and luck, / Sea creatures moved onto land and had a coming-out party / That was ever so grand
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Gordon parks.
Collected Works.
A massive five-volume collection that surveys five decades of Gordon Parks’ photography by renowned publisher Steidel. Folio, black- and red-stamped gray cloth; red slipcase; overall very clean. FIRST EDITION.
Goettingen, Germany: The Gordon Parks Foundation & Steidl, (2012)
“These images and words are a gathering of individuals, events, places, conflicts, and dilemmas that confronted me as I shifted from course to course in pursuit of survival. Some star-coloured, others, painted with rage, fall like rain in my memory. They all simmer down to what I remember, forgot, and what at last I know.” Gordon Parks
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
D. michael cheers (nd)
Family on bus, from Songs of My People: African Americans, A Self-Portrait (Holding On - Survival section).
Silver print, the image measuring 10½x13⅜ inches (26.7x34 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with notations in pencil and ink on verso. Circa 1990-92
Launched in 1990, Songs of My People was a book, exhibition, and project created and edited by Eric Easter, Dudley M. Brooks, and D. Michael Cheers. It included the work of fifty African American photographers who were commissioned beginning in 1990 to record African American life in order to create a balanced and moving selection of images of everyday life and culture. About 190,000 photographs were created. The exhibition opened at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and traveled in a variety of iterations from 1992-1994. The 1992 book included an introduction by Gordon Parks and essays by Sylvester Monroe, Paula Giddings, Nelson George, and Joyce Ladner.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Latoya ruby frazier (1982- )
Momme (Shadow), from the Momme portrait series.
Silver print, the image measuring 9¾x13 inches (24.8x33 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Frazier’s signature, title, date, and edition notation 18/30 in pencil on verso. 2008
WITH–Frazier’s signed monograph The Notion of Family. Essays by Dennis C. Dickerson and Laura Wexler. Interview by Dawoud Bey. Illustrated with numerous reproductions of Frazier’s photographs. 4to, cloth printed with a photograph; enclosed in a printed clamshell box. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY FRAZIER. New York: Aperture Foundation, (2014)
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Jeff brouws (1955- )
Abandoned Neighborhood Bar on Ohio Street (Since Demolished), Buffalo, NY.
Archival pigment print, the image measuring 17x20⅞ inches (43.2x50.8 cm.), the sheet 20x24 inches (50.8x61 cm.), with Brouws’ signature, title, negative and print dates, and edition notation 2/20 in ink on verso. 2002; printed 2006
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Abelardo morell (1948- )
Eclipse: Photogram - Cut and Scratched Film.
Archival pigment print, the image measuring 30x24 inches (76.2x61 cm.), the sheet 38x32 inches (96.5x81x3 cm.), mounted to aluminum, with Morell’s signature in ink, and his artist label with the title, date, and edition notation 1/8, also in ink, on mount verso. 2012
Provenance: Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York; to the Present Owner
This photograph was part of the exhibition Abelardo Morell: Rock, Paper, Scissors at Bonni Benrubi, New York, November 2012
Barbara Confino, The Sensuous Surface: Abelardo Morell Rock Paper Scissors, New York Photo Review, December 20-26, 2012
Loring Knoblauch, Abelardo Morell: Rock, Paper, Scissors @ Bonni Benrubi, Collector Daily, November 9, 2012
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Richard mosse (1980- )
707 Damascus.
Digital c-print, the image measuring 37½x50 inches (94x127 cm.), flush mounted, with Mosse‘s signature in ink on a Jack Shainman Gallery label, and a second Jack Shainman Gallery label with edition notation 2/5 + 1 AP on mount verso. 2008
Provenance: Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; to the Present Owner
Estimate
$20,000 – $30,000
Marina abramovic (1946- )
Hands as Energy Receivers.
Pigment print, the image measuring 7 inches (17.8 cm.) square, the sheet 13 inches (33 cm.) square, with Abramovic’s signature, edition notation 8/25 AP, and inscription in pencil on recto. 2014
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Richard avedon (1923-2004)
Susan Sontag.
Silver print, the image measuring 18½x14¾ inches (47x37.5 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Avedon's signature in ink, his copyright stamp, and his credit and the sitter's name in pencil in an unknown hand on verso. Circa 2000
This image was published in the print edition of The New Yorker magazine, to illustrate the article "The Hunger Artist – Is there anything Susan Sontag doesn’t want to know?" , March 6, 2000, p. 68
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Todd hido (1968- )
#3242.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 30x38 inches (76.2x96.5 cm.), flush mounted to aluminum, with Hido’s signature, title, and edition notation 4/5 in ink, and a General Graphics Exhibits label on mount verso. 2003; printed 2004
Estimate
$3,000 – $5,000
Kenro izu (1949- )
Pak Ou Cave #18, Luang Prabang, Laos.
Platinum palladium print, the image measuring 14¾x60 inches (37.5x152.4 cm.), with Izu's signature in pencil on recto, and his stamp with his signature, title, negative number, print date, and edition notation 5/20 in pencil on mount verso. 1997; printed 2000
Provenance: Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, 2001; to the Present Owner
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Matóš tóth (nd)
Untitled, from the cycle Banality of Reality.
Transfer c-print on a tank top, the image measuring 22x14 inches (55.9x35.6 cm.), mounted to board; the artist’s frame 33x25 inches (83.8x63.5 cm.). 2001
Provenance: AIPAD, New York, from the Czech Center of Photography, Prague; to the Present Owner
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
Bill jacobson (1955- )
#3839/#3561, a diptych.
Together, 2 photographs. Chromogenic prints, the images measuring 10½x12 inches (26.7x30.5 cm.), the mounts 19¼x21½ inches (48.8x54.6 cm.), each with Jacobson's signature, print date, edition notation 30/45, and the notation left image / right image, and one with both titles, all in ink, on mount verso. 2000; printed 2002
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
John patrick dugdale (1960- )
Studio Self Portrait on Recamier, Morton St.
Cyanotype, the image measuring 10x7¾ inches (25.4x19.7 cm.), flush mounted, with Dugdale’s signature, title, date, and edition notation 1/12 in ink on mount verso. 1990
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
John dugdale (1960- )
Moon just tinged with blue, Stone Ridge, NY.
Cyanotype, the image measuring 12½x9½ inches (30.5x22.9 cm.), the artist’s frame 17¾x14¾ inches (43.2x35.6 cm.), with Dugdale’s studio label with his signature, title, negative and print dates, and edition notation 5/12 in ink on frame verso. 2000; printed 2004
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Paul caponigro (1932- )
Two Pears.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅝x9½ inches (19.4x24.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, the mount 14x20 inches (35.6x50.8 cm.), with Caponigro’s signature in pencil on mount recto, and again on the overmat. 1999
Provenance: Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York, 1999; to the Present Owner
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,500
Mario cravo neto (1947-2009)
Man with fish over his back.
Silver print, the image measuring 15⅝x15¾ inches (39.7x40 cm.), the sheet 19x23 inches (48.3x58.4 cm.), with Neto’s signature, date, edition notation A/P, and inscription “to Evelyne to remember!” in pencil on recto. 1992
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Louise lawler (1947- )
This Way I Can’t Fight.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9 inches (19.1x22.9 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Lawler’s signature, negative date, and edition notation 38/100 in pencil on verso. 2002
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Martine franck (1938-2012)
Tory Island, County Donegal, Ireland.
Silver print, the image measuring 18⅛x12⅛ inches (45.7x30.5 cm.), the sheet 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Franck’s signature in ink and her blind stamp on recto. 1995
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
William wegman (1943- )
Window.
Large-format Polaroid, the image measuring 26½x20½ inches (67.3x52 cm.), the sheet 30x22 inches (76.2x55.9 cm.), the mount 33x25 inches (83.8x63.5 cm.), with Wegman’s signature, title, and date in ink on print recto. 1992
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Jackie nickerson (1960- )
Chipo, Farm Worker, Zimbabwe.
Digital c-print, the image measuring 23½x18⅜ inches (58.4x45.7 cm.) the sheet 29⅞x25 inches (73.6x63.5 cm.); accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticy with the edition 1/4 and Nickerson’s signature and print date. 1997; printed 2007
Provenance: Jack Shainman Gallery; to the Present Owner
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
Larry sultan (1946-2009)
Silver Curtain, Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, from the series The Valley.
Chromogenic print, the image measuring 23¼x19 inches (59x48.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Sultan’s signature, place, partial title, and date in ink on verso. 1997