(CURTIS EDWARD S) The Plains

Sale 1954 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 3,680

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 7,000

(CURTIS, EDWARD S.) The Plains. Portfolio containing 36 sumptuous large-format restrikes from portfolios 3, 4, 5, 6, 18, and 19 of Curtis's the north american indian. Sepia-tone photogravures, image size 16x12 inches (40.6x30.5 cm.) and the reverse, printed on creme wove paper (sheet size 24x20 inches), with Curtis's caption, credit, and date printed on recto and the Classic Gravure watermark; with a table of contents laid in. Elephant folio, gilt lettered calf, ties; with the Classic Gravure label affixed to the inside front cover; contents loose as issued. one of 228 numbered copies. 1900-27; printed 1970s

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This portfolio contains a different selection of images than the previous lot, but offers the same high production values. It includes scenes of Ogalala, Assinboin, Apsaroke, Arikara, Atsina, Piegan, Cheyenne, and Blackfoot tribespeople.