Swann Galleries: Photographs and Photobooks
Auction Reports
Auction Name | Photographs and Photobooks | Total Sales (USD) | 1,065,195.00 |
Auction Date | May 27, 2021 - May 27, 2021 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 805,650.00 |
Sale Number | #2570 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 1,208,900.00 |
Total Lots | 383 | ||
Sold Lots | 276 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 1,187,250.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 72.06% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 1,781,600.00 |
Unsold Lots | 107 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 59.79% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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233 | ROBERT FRANK (1924-2019) | Covered Car, Long Beach, California. |
1955-56; printed 1971 | USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | USD 52,500.00 |
46 | DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965) | Woman of the High Plains, Texas Panhandle. |
1938; printed circa 1960 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 45,000.00 |
235 | ROY DECARAVA (1919-1919) | Catsup Bottles, Table and Coat, New York. |
1952; printed 1982 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 42,500.00 |
28 | MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO (1902-2002) | Portfolio entitled Fifteen Photographs. |
Introductory essay by André Breton. | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 20,000.00 |
158 | HANNES BECKMANN (1909-1977) | Glasses. |
Circa 1935 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 20,000.00 |
65 | AUGUST SANDER (1876-1964)/GUNTHER SANDER | Handlanger [Bricklayer]. |
1928; printed 1970s | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 16,900.00 |
71 | ROMAN VISHNIAC (1897-1990) | Cracow, A Jewish Street * Munkatch. |
The Beltser Rov Aaron and Baruch Rabinovitch of the Spira dynasty. | USD 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 | USD 15,000.00 |
255 | DIANE ARBUS (1923-1971)/NEIL SELKIRK (1947- ) | Masked Women in a Wheelchair, PA. |
1970; printed 1972 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 13,750.00 |
258 | LILLIAN BASSMAN (1917-2012) | Barbara Mullen Blowing Kiss (variant), Harper's Bazaar. |
1950; printed 1990s | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 13,750.00 |
168 | ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898-1995) | A group of three photographs from St. |
Silver press prints, the images measuring approximately 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), and one the reverse, each with Eisenstaedt's Pix Publishing hand stamp on verso. | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 12,500.00 |
293 | STEVE MCCURRY (1950- ) | Afghan Girl (Sharbat Gula) Chromogenic print, the image measuring 21 1/4x14 1/8 inches (54x35.9 cm.), the sheet 24x20 inches (61x50.8 cm.), flush mounted to aluminum, with McCurry's signature, in ink, on a label on mount verso. |
1985 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 12,500.00 |
269 | ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE (1946-1989) | A pair of photographs of Gregory Hines. |
1985 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 11,875.00 |
193 | HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004) | Our Cat Ulysses and Martine's Shadow. |
1984 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 9,375.00 |
222 | O. WINSTON LINK (1914-2001) | Hotshot Eastbound, Iaeger, West Virginia. |
1957; printed 1988 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 9,375.00 |
268 | PETER HUJAR (1934-1987) | Portrait of Henry Lyon Young. |
1981 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 9,375.00 |
118 | GEORGE HOYNINGEN-HUENE (1900-1968)/HORST P. HORST (1906-1999) | Divers (Horst and Model). |
1930; printed 1980s | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 8,125.00 |
159 | LOTTE JACOBI (1896-1990) | Portfolio III: Photogenics 1946-1955. |
Folio-sized gray cloth clamshell box, with the photographer's name and the number 3 debossed on the cover and side; the printed title page, plate list, and colophon with Jacobi's signature and the edition notation 7/25, in ink; contents loose as issued. | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 8,125.00 |
375 | (NULCEAR EXPLOSION) | A group of 4 large color photographs depicting various American atomic bomb tests in the 1950s, three at the Nevada Test Site and one at Bikini Atoll. |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 | USD 8,125.00 | |
86 | ALLAN GRANT (1919-2008) | Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly backstage at the 28th Annual Academy Awards, Hollywood, CA. |
1956; printed 1976 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 7,250.00 |
173 | CORNELL CAPA (1918-2008) | Bolshoi Ballet School. |
1956; printed 1990s | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 7,000.00 |
305 | ABELARDO MORELL (1948- ) | Camera Obscura of Santa Maria della Salute, Inside Palazzo Bedroom, Venice, Italy. |
2006 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 7,000.00 |
316 | ROBERT PARKEHARRISON (1968- )/SHANA PARKEHARRISON (1964- ) | Earthcoat. |
2002 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 7,000.00 |
327 | MICHAEL WOLF (1954-2019) | Night #1, Hong Kong. |
2005 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 | USD 7,000.00 |
66 | AUGUST SANDER (1876-1964)/GERD SANDER | Secretary at West German Radio, Cologne. |
Sander blind stamp on print recto; Gerd Sander's signature and print date, in pencil, the August Sander Archive hand stamp with the print date and edition notation 11/12, in ink, and printing notations again, in pencil, on print verso; and the Archive han | USD 3,000.00 - 4,500.00 | USD 6,750.00 |
245 | ROBERT ADAMS (1937- ) | Untitled. |
1973-74 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 | USD 6,750.00 |