Results of Swann's Dec. 13 Photographic Literature & Photographs Auction
Sale total: $1,296,940 with Buyer's Premium
Hammer total: $1,078,800
Estimates for sale as a whole: $1,387,000 - $2,024,700
We offered 565 lots; 421 sold (25% buy-in rate by lot)
Top lots, Prices with buyer's premium
551* Roy De Carava, Roy De Carava, portfolio with 12 dust-grain
photogravures, 1991, $81,000 C
365 Paul Strand, Grazing Horses, New Mexico, double-coated platinum
print, 1930, $52,800 C
466 Alfred Eisenstaedt, Children at Puppet Theatre, Paris, silver
print, 1963, printed 1980s, $29,400 C
49 Camera Work Number 36, with 16 photogravures by Alfred Stieglitz,
New York, 1911, $28,800 D
281 Minor White, group of typewritten manuscripts, including
Assignments for Publication, with five vintage photographs,
1940s-60s, $26,400 D
112* Paul Graham, A-1, The Great North Road, deluxe edition, signed,
issued with an original photograph, $24,000 C
534 Printed Matter Photography Portfolio: Portraits, with 11 (of 12)
photographs by major artists, 1994, $22,800 C
464* Henri Cartier-Bresson, Siphnos, Greece, silver print, 1961,
printed early-mid 1960s, $21,600 C
364 Charles Sheeler, View of New York, silver print after a painting,
circa 1934, $20,400 C
539* Flor Garduño, Witnesses of Time, portfolio with 10 photographs
of Ecuador, Guatemala and Bolivia, platinum palladium prints,
1988-90, printed 1993, $16,800 C
537 Shirin Neshat, I Am Its Secret, chromogenic print, 1993, $14,700 C
367 Herbert Bayer, Lonely Metropolitan, silver print, 1932, printed
1969, $14,400 C
379 Edward Weston, Cypress, Point Lobos, silver print, 1930, $12,000 C
408 Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Carmel Highlands, California, silver
print, 1945, printed 1974, $12,000 C
439 Margaret Bourke-White, Coney Island Parachute Jump, silver print,
1952, $12,000 C
417 W. Eugene Smith, Albert Schweitzer, silver print, 1949, printed
1960s, $11,400 C
368 Cartier-Bresson, Hyères, France, silver print, 1932, printed
early 1970s, $9,600 C
390 Bourke-White, Steps to the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.,
silver print, circa 1937, $9,600 C
524 Larry Clark, Untitled (From “Tulsa”), silver print, early 1970s,
$9,600 C
430 Cartier-Bresson, Dance Hall, Soviet Union, silver print, circa
1948, printed early 1970s, $9,000 C
KEY: *=Record; C=Collector, D=Dealer
Hammer total: $1,078,800
Estimates for sale as a whole: $1,387,000 - $2,024,700
We offered 565 lots; 421 sold (25% buy-in rate by lot)
Top lots, Prices with buyer's premium
551* Roy De Carava, Roy De Carava, portfolio with 12 dust-grain
photogravures, 1991, $81,000 C
365 Paul Strand, Grazing Horses, New Mexico, double-coated platinum
print, 1930, $52,800 C
466 Alfred Eisenstaedt, Children at Puppet Theatre, Paris, silver
print, 1963, printed 1980s, $29,400 C
49 Camera Work Number 36, with 16 photogravures by Alfred Stieglitz,
New York, 1911, $28,800 D
281 Minor White, group of typewritten manuscripts, including
Assignments for Publication, with five vintage photographs,
1940s-60s, $26,400 D
112* Paul Graham, A-1, The Great North Road, deluxe edition, signed,
issued with an original photograph, $24,000 C
534 Printed Matter Photography Portfolio: Portraits, with 11 (of 12)
photographs by major artists, 1994, $22,800 C
464* Henri Cartier-Bresson, Siphnos, Greece, silver print, 1961,
printed early-mid 1960s, $21,600 C
364 Charles Sheeler, View of New York, silver print after a painting,
circa 1934, $20,400 C
539* Flor Garduño, Witnesses of Time, portfolio with 10 photographs
of Ecuador, Guatemala and Bolivia, platinum palladium prints,
1988-90, printed 1993, $16,800 C
537 Shirin Neshat, I Am Its Secret, chromogenic print, 1993, $14,700 C
367 Herbert Bayer, Lonely Metropolitan, silver print, 1932, printed
1969, $14,400 C
379 Edward Weston, Cypress, Point Lobos, silver print, 1930, $12,000 C
408 Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Carmel Highlands, California, silver
print, 1945, printed 1974, $12,000 C
439 Margaret Bourke-White, Coney Island Parachute Jump, silver print,
1952, $12,000 C
417 W. Eugene Smith, Albert Schweitzer, silver print, 1949, printed
1960s, $11,400 C
368 Cartier-Bresson, Hyères, France, silver print, 1932, printed
early 1970s, $9,600 C
390 Bourke-White, Steps to the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.,
silver print, circa 1937, $9,600 C
524 Larry Clark, Untitled (From “Tulsa”), silver print, early 1970s,
$9,600 C
430 Cartier-Bresson, Dance Hall, Soviet Union, silver print, circa
1948, printed early 1970s, $9,000 C
KEY: *=Record; C=Collector, D=Dealer
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