May 22, 2008

Growing Demand in the Mid Market

Daile Kaplan, Swann Galleries Vice President and Director of Photographs, states that there is a growing demand for "quality pictures in the mid market" after sale 2146 on May 15 of photographic literature and photographs. "The media tends to focus its coverage on the exclusivity and performance of high-end artworks." She is absolutely right. So these are the top lots:

3 Hans Bellmer, Les Jeux de la Poupée, one of 142 numbered and signed copies, Paris, 1949, $96,000 C

389 Ansel Adams, The grand Tetons and the Snake River, silver print, 1942, printed 1970s, $55,200 C

519 Roy De Carava, Roy De Carava, portfolio with 12 dust-grain photogravures, 1991, $52,800 C

282** Baron Raimund Von Stillfried and Hermann Andersen, album containing 100 hand-colored albumen prints depicting views and costumes of Japan, circa 1879, $45,600 C

272 Lewis Carroll, Annie and Henry Rogers, albumen print, 1861, $33,600 C

39* Camera Work Number 48, with Modernist plates by Paul Strand, New York, 1960, $24,000 C

280** Kusakabe Kimbei, album with 100 hand-tinted albumen prints of Japan, circa 1889, $22,800 C

348 Harold Edgerton, collection of 26 vintage stop-motion photographs, silver prints, circa 1937, $21,600 D

547* Herb Ritts, Fred with Tires, Hollywood, silver print, 1984, $20,400 C

98 Georges Hugnet, La Septième Face du Dé, Poèmes-Découpages, inscribed twice by Hugnet, and accompanied by two prospectuses announcing the sale of the book, Paris, 1936, $16,800 D

71 Robert Frank, Les Américains, first French edition, Paris, 1958, signed and inscribed, with an original photo, $15,600 C

72 Frank, The Americans, first American edition, New York, 1959, $15,600 D

314 Maurice Tabard, Montage (Femme), silver print, 1929, $15,600 C

40 Camera Work Number 49/50, the final issue, with 11 photogravures by Paul Strand, in a box that displays Strand’s and Alfred Stieglitz’s handwritten notations, New York, 1917, $14,400 C

406 Frederick Sommer, Venus, Jupiter and Mars, silver print, 1949, printed 1950s, $14,400 D

572 Flor Garduño, Witnesses of Time, portfolio with 10 platinum-palladium prints, 1988-90, printed 1993, $14,400 D

165 Richard Prince, Fish Story, first edition, 1976, signed and inscribed, $13,200 D

370 Horst P. Horst, Classical Greek Statue, Paris, platinum-palladium print, 1932, printed circa 1990, $12,250 D

518* John Divola, The Zuma Series Portfolio 1, with 10 dye-transfer prints, 1977-78, printed 1982, $12,000 C

34 Claude Cahun, Aveux non Avenus, one of 500 numbered copies, Paris, 1930, $11,400 C

373 Helen Levitt, N.Y.C. (Boy with Mask), silver print, 1939, $11,400 D

460 Ruth Bernhard, Classic Torso, silver print, 1952, printed 1970s-early 1980s, $11,400 C

565 Sally Mann, Vinland, silver print, 1992, $11,400 C

Prices with buyer's premium. Key: C=Collector, D=Dealer; *=Record; **=Artist Record

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