Dec 16, 2008

Sale results of Swann Galleries

These are the results of the most important lots at the auction Photographic Literature & Photographs, December 11, at Swann Galleries, New York:

Sale total: $442,638 with Buyer’s Premium
Hammer total: $368,495
Estimates for sale as a whole: $850,400 - $1,230,750
399 lots offered; 243 sold (39% buy-in rate by lot)

Prices with buyer’s premium

267 Visionaire, complete run of 50 issues, New York, 1991-2007, $24,000 D

361 Vernacular picture archive containing more than 20,000 abstract and architectural photographs, 1950s-1970s, $24,000 C

168* Man Ray, Mr. and Mrs. Woodman, with 27 original photographs, one of 50 numbered copies, signed, $16,800 C

175 Moï Ver, Paris, 80 Photographies de Moï Ver, first edition, one of 100 numbered copies, Paris, 1931, The Netherlands, 1970, $15,600 D

200 Provoke, Numbers 1, 2 and 3, Tokyo, 1968-69, $12,000 C

55 Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment, first American edition, signed and inscribed, New York, 1952, $8,400 D

323 Walker Evans and Jim Dow, Coal Stevedore, Havana [Dockworker, Havana], silver print, 1933, printed 1971, $8,400 C

366 Cartier-Bresson, Ile de la Cité, Paris, silver print, 1951, printed 1980s, $7,800 D

313 André Kertész, Mondrian’s Glasses and Pipe, Paris, silver print, 1926, printed 1950s-60s, $7,800 D

395 Sandy Skoglund, Radioactive Cats, dye-transfer print, 1980, $7,200 D

321 Group of 10 photographs printed by Arthur Rothstein, with images by Evans, Lange and Shahn, silver prints, 1935-39, printed 1970s, $6,240 C

97 Lee Friedlander, The American Monument, deluxe edition, one of 150 with an original photo, New York, 1976, $6,000 C

376 Mario Giacomelli, Untitled (Landscape with haystacks), silver print, circa 1970, $6,000 C

76 William Eggleston, 2 ¼, one of 50 signed and numbered copies issued with a photo, Santa Fe, 1999, $5,760 C

309 Edward S. Curtis, Oasis in the Badlands, sepia-toned silver print, 1905, $5,280 D

KEY: C=Collector, D=Dealer; *=Record

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