Photography Collection

Preliminary results of sale 2180, May 14, 2009:

Sale total: $1,030,176 with Buyer’s Premium
Hammer total: $858,480
Estimates for sale as a whole: $1,527,750 - $2,213,200
We offered 411 lots; 262 sold (36% buy-in rate by lot)

Top lots, Prices with buyer’s premium

212 Edward Weston, Dunes at Oceano, silver print, 1936, $72,000 C
296 Roy De Carava, Roy De Carava, portfolio with 12 dust-grain photogravures, 1991, $57,600 D
266* Minor White, Windowsill Daydreaming, silver print, 1958, printed mid 1960s, $26,400 D
173 Edward S. Curtis, Three Chiefs, Piegan, unique, mural-size toned print, 1900, $24,000 D
172 Curtis, The Vanishing Race, oversize platinum print, 1904, $16,800 D
182 Curtis, Chief Joseph, Nez Percé, photogravure on Van Gelder paper, 1903, $16,800 C
284 Horst P. Horst, Lillian Marcuson, platinum print, 1950, printed 1980s, $16,800 C
328 Garry Winogrand, select group of 19 photographs, silver prints, 1965-77, printed early 1980s, $16,800 C
90A Edward Ruscha, Various Small Fires and Milk, first edition, signed and inscribed by Ruscha to Andy Warhol, Los Angeles, 1964, $15,600 D
285 Horst, Nina de Voogh (for Vogue), platinum print, 1951, printed 1980s, $13,200 C
165 Curtis, Three Chiefs, Piegan, platinum print, 1900, $12,000 C
327 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sifnos, Greece, silver print, 1961, printed 1980s, $12,000 D
379 Horst, Round the Clock I, New York, silver print, 1987, printed 1990s, $11,400 C
391 Robert Adams, Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado, silver print, 1984, printed 1988, $11,400 D
68 Nobuyoshi Araki, ABCD, four volumes, one of 20 copies signed and numbered by Araki, New York, 2003, $10,800 C
324 Moneta J. Sleet, Jr., Pulitzer-prize winning photo of Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. comforting her daughter Bernice, age 5, during her husband’s funeral . . ., silver print, 1968-69, $10,800 C
382 William Eggleston, Winston, chromogenic print, circa 1983-86, $10,200 C
239 Brett Weston, group of six photographs from his Ten Photographs portfolio, silver prints, 1945-55, printed 1963, $9,600 C
240 Eliot Porter, choice group of three cloud studies, silver prints, 1940s, $9,600 C
333 George Tice, Petit’s Mobil Station, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, oversize selenium-toned silver print, 1974, printed 1980, $9,600 C
399 Joel-Peter Witkin, The History of Commercial Photography in South America, silver print, with a preparatorypencil sketch for the photograph, 1984, $9,600 C
206 Kurt Schwitters, Die Kultpumpe [The Cult Pump], silver print, circa 1919, $9,600 C

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