W. Eugene Smith - Photographs New York Thursday, October 4, 2018 | Phillips

Photographs

New York Auction 4 October 2018

  • Literature

    Harry N. Abrams, Inc., W. Eugene Smith: Photographs 1934-1975, cover, pp. 95, 127, 133, 163, 241, 328, 331, 335
    Aperture, Let Truth Be the Prejudice – W. Eugene Smith: His Life and Photographs, pp. 46, 128, 143, 156-157, 163, 214
    Aperture, W. Eugene Smith: Master of the Photographic Essay, pp. 48, 72, 80, 100, 107, 130, 189

  • Catalogue Essay

    Titles include:
    Charlie Chaplin, Limelight, 1952; Wake of Juan Carra Trujillo, 1951; Untitled (child sitting), circa 1950; Goats on a Roof, Africa, 1954; Patient in Mental Hospital, Haiti, 1959; Three Generations of Miners. A Welsh Coal-Mining Town, Wales, Great Britain, 1950; Maude in Classroom, 1951; Egret in Flight, Africa, 1954; Skull, New Mexico, 1947

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W. Eugene Smith

Selected Images

1947-1959
Nine gelatin silver prints, printed later.
Varying dimensions from 7 x 5 7/8 in. (17.8 x 14.9 cm) to 13 1/4 x 10 in. (33.7 x 25.4 cm) or the reverse
Each print signed in stylus on the recto; each variously signed, titled, annotated in ink and/or pencil and stamped on the mount or the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

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Photographs

New York Auction 4 October 2018