Feb 21, 2019 - Sale 2499

Sale 2499 - Lot 299

Price Realized: $ 2,340
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION)
President and Mrs. Kennedy with Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie in the motorcade about two minutes before the assassination.
An iconic and sharp snapshot, which conveys a halycon moment on this tumultuous day. Chromogenic print, the image measuring 3x4 5/8 inches (7.6x11.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the date APR 64 in the negative, and a caption, in ink, on verso. 1963; printed 1964

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An image that resonates to this day with remarkable visual power, and is overlaid with a Gerhard Richter-like blurry pictorial trope.