Feb 23, 2023 - Sale 2627

Sale 2627 - Lot 189

Price Realized: $ 10,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
(BAILEY; GIBSON; NEWTON; MEISEL; RITTS, et alia)
The Year of Tibet Portfolio II. Assembled by Richard Gere and Bill Borden for Tibet House, New York. Introduction by Richard Gere. With 10 photographs (of 12). Platinum palladium prints, the images measuring 12 3/4x10 inches (32.4x25.4 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets 15 3/4x13 inches (40x33 cm.), all with the photographer's signature in pencil, two with the negative date (Gibson and Meisel), and each with the edition notation AP 8/24 in pencil, all on recto; each print is enclosed in a paper folder. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 100 NUMBERED SETS AND 24 ARTIST PROOFS. Folio-sized black clamshell case; with the colophon; contents loose as issued. New York: Tibet House, 1928-90; printed 1990

David Bailey, Scream, 1983 * Ruth Bernhard, Classic Torso, 1952 * William Claxton, Chet Baker and Lili, Hollywood, 1955 * William Clift, Portrait #2, Juan Hamilton, Sculptor, nd * Ralph Gibson, Untitled (from the Somnambulist), 1968 * Helmut Newton, A Scene from Pina Bausch's Ballet, Die Keuschheitslegende (The Legend of Virginity), Wuppertal, nd * Steve Meisel, Christine, 1990 * Duane Michals, Illuminated Man, 1986 * Herb Ritts, Three Male Torsos, Los Angeles, 1986 * George Rodger, The Wool Suq in Tunis, 1958

Provenance: The Collection of Sheila Metzner, New York

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