Jun 11, 2020 - Sale 2536

Sale 2536 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
(MAGNUM--CAPA, RODGER, CARTIER-BRESSON, CHIM)
Magnum Founders, In Celebration of Sixty Years. With 13 (of 13) photographs, including three each by Robert Capa, George Rodger, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and David "Chim" Seymour, four of the original seven founders of Magnum Photos. The edition also includes a free-standing platinum print by Capa, Pablo Picasso, Françoise Gilot and Javier Vilato, France, 1951. Foreword by Elliott Erwitt. Platinum prints, the images measuring 9 3/4x6 1/2 to 10 1/8x8 inches (24.8x16.5 to 25.7x20.3 cm.), and the reverse, each with the respective photographer's Estate blind stamp, on recto. Oversize hand-bound black leather folio, with the debossed title on the front cover; with signatures from the 2007 Magnum Photographers, and the edition number 64/75, in pencil, in the rear of the book; housed in a black cloth covered clamshell portfolio box with the printed title on the front; encased in a custom-crafted clamshell walnut box, with the title on an engraved brass placquard, on the top. Verso Editions, 2007

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Robert Capa, Cerro Muriano, 1936 Robert Capa, Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, 1944 Robert Capa, Zürs, Australia, 1950 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marseilles, France, 1932 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alicante, Spain, 1933 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Srinagar, Kashmir, 1933 George Rodger, London, England, 1940 George Rodger, Hausa Chieftains, Chad, 1941 George Rodger, Kordofan, Southern Sudan, 1949 David Seymour, An orphaned girl, Tereska, Poland, 1948 David Seymour, Eliezer, Trito, Galilee, Israel, 1951 David Seymour, Berhard Berenson, Rome, Italy, 1955.