ANSEL ADAMS
The Golden Gate Before the Bridge, 1933
Gelatin silver print, probably unique, flush-mounted on Crescent Illustration board,
printed between 1940 and 1953, signed with stylus in the image;
titled in ink and credit stamp on the flush-mount verso.
Image/flush-mount 19 ½ x 27 3/4in (49.5 x 70.5cm)
Estimate $150,000-250,000
FINE PHOTOGRAPHS
Vito Acconci » Ansel Adams » Diane Arbus » Eugène Atget » Richard Avedon » Roy DeCarava » Robert Heinecken » Ruth Orkin » Irving Penn » Ed Ruscha » Carleton E. Watkins » Edward Weston » & others
Auction: 29 Sep – 2 Oct 2017
Mon 2 Oct 14:00
ROY DECARAVA
Face out of Focus, c. 1960
Gelatin silver print, credit ‘DeCarava’, annotation ‘Unknown Head, N.Y.’ and dated
by Susan DeCarava in the ink in the margin; titled ‘Face out of focus’, dated,
annotated ‘Taken, processed and printed by Roy DeCarava. Signed on the recto in artist’s name
by his daughter Susan DeCarava in 2017’ and copyright credit reproduction limitation
in ink on the verso.
Image 12 7/8 x 10in (32.6 x 25.4cm)
Sheet 14 x 11in (35.6 x 28cm)
Estimate $70,000-$90,000
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Auction: Monday, 2 October, 2017, 2pm, New York
Preview:
Friday, 29 September, 10am-5pm
Saturday, 30 September, noon-5pm
Sunday, 1 October, noon-5pm
Monday, 2 October, 10am-1pm
Talk by Sherry DeCarava on her partner Roy DeCarava’s photographs:
On Sunday, 1 October, at noon
VITO ACCONCI
Applications / She To Me To Him, December 1970
Gelatin silver print diptych with text panel, printed 1990s, each flush-mounted,
each signed, titled, dated and consecutively numbered ‘1-3 of 3’ in wax pencil on the flush-mount,
verso; one of a set of 2 (originals stills destroyed.) (3)
Sheet/flush-mount (prints) each 39 ½ x 29 1/2in (100.3 x 74.9cm); text panel 29 x 29 ½in (73.7 x 74.9cm)
Estimate $80,000-$120,000
CARLETON E. WATKINS
Section of the Sentinels with Pavilion Built over the Stump of the Big Tree, Calaveras Grove, 1878
Mammoth-plate albumen print.
16 3/8 x 11 1/8in (41.5 x 29.7cm)
Mount 20 x 26in (50.8 x 66cm)
