W. Eugene Smith - Photographs New York Friday, April 5, 2024 | Phillips

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    • Provenance

      Christie's, New York, 6 October 1995, lot 424

    • Literature

      Aperture, W. Eugene Smith: Master of the Photographic Essay, p. 72
      Aperture, W. Eugene Smith, His Photographs and Notes: An Aperture Monograph, n.p.
      Aperture, Let Truth Be the Prejudice, W. Eugene Smith: His Life and Photographs, p. 143
      McGraw-Hill, W. Eugene Smith, Shadow and Substance: The Life and Work of an American Photographer, n.p.
      Mora and Hill, W. Eugene Smith: Photographs 1934-1975, cover and p. 95
      Phaidon, W. Eugene Smith, p. 51

FIGURE + FORM: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

352

Three Generations of Miners. A Welsh Coal-Mining Town, Wales, Great Britain

1950
Gelatin silver print, mounted to board.
9½ x 12½ in. (24.1 x 31.8 cm)
Signed in pencil on the recto; signed, annotated 'credit + copyright' and copyright notation in pencil on the reverse of the mount.

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Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $8,890

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New York Auction 5 April 2024