Feb 13 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2694 -

Sale 2694 - Lot 163

Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
(BAILEY; GIBSON; NEWTON; MEISEL; RITTS, et alia)
The Year of Tibet Portfolio II. 1928-90; printed 1990.
Assembled by Richard Gere and Bill Borden for Tibet House, New York. Introduction by Richard Gere. Complete with 12 photographs. Platinum palladium prints, the images measuring 12¾x10 inches (32.4x25.4 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets 15¾x13 inches (40x33 cm.), all with the photographer's signature in pencil, three with the negative date (Gibson, Ginsberg, and Meisel), and each with the edition notation AP 21/24 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

Eve Arnold, Marylin Monroe in Rehearsal in the Desert, Nevada, for the Film Misfits, 1960 * 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 * Allen Ginsberg, Heroic Portrait of Jack Kerouac, 1953 * 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