Swann Galleries Auction of Fine Photographs Results
Sale 2170, February 19, 2009:
Sale total: $641,520 with Buyer’s Premium
Hammer total: $534,600
Estimates for sale as a whole: $556,600 - $816,400
We offered 117 lots; 79 sold (32% buy-in rate by lot)
Top lots, Prices with buyer’s premium
6* Francis Bedford, Photographic Pictures Made by Mr. Francis Bedford During the Tour in the East, suite of three albums, London, 1862 $132,000 D
5 Claude-Joseph Désiré Charnay, Cités et ruines Américaines, Mitla, Palenque, Izmal, Chichen-Itza, Uxmal, album with 47 albumen photographs of Mexico, including two panoramas, Paris, 1862 $60,000 D
86* Dave Heath, Vengeful Sister, Chicago, silver print, 1956 $19,200 C
12 William Henry Jackson, Grand Canon of the Colorado, mammoth albumen print, circa 1883 $16,800 C
100 Minor White, Moon & Wall Encrustations, Pultneyville, New York, silver print, 1964 $15,600 C
21 Edward S. Curtis, The Scout—Apache, orotone, 1906 $14,400 D
61 Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Un Pez que Llaman Sierra [A Fish Called Sword], silver print, 1944, printed 1950s-early 60s $14,400 C
85 In Chicago, portfolio with 12 photographs of the city by artists including Callahan, Ishimoto, Siskind and Thall, 1935-79, printed 1983 $13,200 C
105 Eliot Porter, Eliot Porter, In Wilderness, portfolio with 10 dye-transfer prints, one of 300 copies, 1981 $11,400 C
18 Curtis, A Souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, May-August 1899, with 107 silver print photographs by Curtis and others, 1899 $11,400 D
65* Mike Disfarmer, Portrait of Mary Jo Seymore, silver print, circa 1944 $10,800 C
117 Kara Walker, Testimony, portfolio with five photogravures, from an edition of 40, 2005 $10,200 C
75 Ansel Adams, Pasture Hills and Rain, Sonoma County, California, silver print, 1951, printed late 1960s-early 1970s $9,000 C
22 Curtis, Cañon de Chelly, sepia toned silver border print, 1904 $9,000 D
110 Ernst Haas, The Creation, portfolio with 10 dye-transfer prints, one of 300 copies, 1982 $9,000 D
15 Jackson, The “W,” Pike’s Peak Carriage Road, mammoth albumen print, circa 1885 $9,000 C
68 Horst P. Horst, Portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier [Kennedy], silver print, 1953 $8,400 C
29 Edward Weston / George Tice, Six Nudes of Neil, portfolio of platinum palladium prints, 1925, printed 1977 $8,400 C
118 Joel-Peter Witkin, Canova’s Venus, N.Y.C., silver print, 1982, with a preparatory sketch in pencil, signed by the artist $8,400 D
87 Robert Frank, Lander, Wyoming, silver print, 1955-56 $8,400 D
KEY: C= Collector; D=Dealer; *=Record
Sale total: $641,520 with Buyer’s Premium
Hammer total: $534,600
Estimates for sale as a whole: $556,600 - $816,400
We offered 117 lots; 79 sold (32% buy-in rate by lot)
Top lots, Prices with buyer’s premium
6* Francis Bedford, Photographic Pictures Made by Mr. Francis Bedford During the Tour in the East, suite of three albums, London, 1862 $132,000 D
5 Claude-Joseph Désiré Charnay, Cités et ruines Américaines, Mitla, Palenque, Izmal, Chichen-Itza, Uxmal, album with 47 albumen photographs of Mexico, including two panoramas, Paris, 1862 $60,000 D
86* Dave Heath, Vengeful Sister, Chicago, silver print, 1956 $19,200 C
12 William Henry Jackson, Grand Canon of the Colorado, mammoth albumen print, circa 1883 $16,800 C
100 Minor White, Moon & Wall Encrustations, Pultneyville, New York, silver print, 1964 $15,600 C
21 Edward S. Curtis, The Scout—Apache, orotone, 1906 $14,400 D
61 Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Un Pez que Llaman Sierra [A Fish Called Sword], silver print, 1944, printed 1950s-early 60s $14,400 C
85 In Chicago, portfolio with 12 photographs of the city by artists including Callahan, Ishimoto, Siskind and Thall, 1935-79, printed 1983 $13,200 C
105 Eliot Porter, Eliot Porter, In Wilderness, portfolio with 10 dye-transfer prints, one of 300 copies, 1981 $11,400 C
18 Curtis, A Souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, May-August 1899, with 107 silver print photographs by Curtis and others, 1899 $11,400 D
65* Mike Disfarmer, Portrait of Mary Jo Seymore, silver print, circa 1944 $10,800 C
117 Kara Walker, Testimony, portfolio with five photogravures, from an edition of 40, 2005 $10,200 C
75 Ansel Adams, Pasture Hills and Rain, Sonoma County, California, silver print, 1951, printed late 1960s-early 1970s $9,000 C
22 Curtis, Cañon de Chelly, sepia toned silver border print, 1904 $9,000 D
110 Ernst Haas, The Creation, portfolio with 10 dye-transfer prints, one of 300 copies, 1982 $9,000 D
15 Jackson, The “W,” Pike’s Peak Carriage Road, mammoth albumen print, circa 1885 $9,000 C
68 Horst P. Horst, Portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier [Kennedy], silver print, 1953 $8,400 C
29 Edward Weston / George Tice, Six Nudes of Neil, portfolio of platinum palladium prints, 1925, printed 1977 $8,400 C
118 Joel-Peter Witkin, Canova’s Venus, N.Y.C., silver print, 1982, with a preparatory sketch in pencil, signed by the artist $8,400 D
87 Robert Frank, Lander, Wyoming, silver print, 1955-56 $8,400 D
KEY: C= Collector; D=Dealer; *=Record
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