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Estimate: $ 9,000 - $ 12,000
(EVANS, WALKER) (1903-1975) Portfolio titled "I," with 15 photographs spanning the length of Evans's important career. Silver prints, sizes ranging from 6x3 5/8 to 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (15.2x9.2 to 19.1x24.1 cm.), and the reverse, each with the print number and edition number 21/75, in silver ink, and the embossed Walker Evans Estate portfolio blind stamp on recto; each print is individually matted. Elephant-sized two-toned clamshell box, slightly faded; the colophon with the edition number, in pencil. 1928-1971; printed 1978
The portfolio was printed by Thomas A. Brown and Baldwin Lee and published by the Estate of Walker Evans, distributed by Lunn Gallery/Graphics International, Ltd. The collectors purchased it from Len Hartnett, in 1986, and it has has been in their private collection since then.
"Brooklyn Bridge, New York," c. 1928 "Luna Park, Coney Island, New York," 1928 "Roadside, Lewisburg, Alabama," 1936 "Water fountain, Havana," 1932 "Girl in window, Havana," 1932 "Lincoln Kirstein, New York," c. 1931 "Berenice Abbott, New York," c. 1930 "Torn movie poster, Truro, Mass.," 1931 "Billboard painters, Florida," 1934 "Church interior, Alabama," 1936 "Subway, New York," 1938 "Woodbridge Monument, Mayfield, Kentucky," c. 1945 "Kingston Station, Rhode Island," 1953 "Santa Monica, California," 1953 "Robert Frank's stove, Nova Scotia," 1971.
