May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 279

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(SPORTS)
Group of approximately 115 modernist-inspired imagery of European athletes, all men, including fields of runners, single runners in motion, bicyclists, high jumpers, other track and field althetes, grinning (and tired) competitors posing after their events, a couple of tug-of-war competitions, spectators, officials, and more. Silver prints, more than 15 on carte-postale paper, sizes ranging from 3 1/4x4 to 5x7 inches (8.3x10.2 to 12.7x17.8 cm.), and the reverse, most with a credit hand stamp and/or a caption identifying the event, typed or in ink or in pencil, and some with dates, on print verso or affixed to a label on verso. 1920s