May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 310

Price Realized: $ 9,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
(STRAND, PAUL) (1890-1976)
"Portfolio Three." Complete with 10 (of 10) of Strand's iconic photographs. Gold-toned and varnished silver prints, sizes ranging from 7 1/4x8 3/4 to 10x13 inches (18.4x22.2 to 25.4x33 cm.), and the reverse, each with the printed Paul Strand Foundation Portfolio Three seal on the flush mount verso; each print is individually matted. Elephant folio-sized black-stamped clamshell box; including the colophon with the edition notation 37 (of 110) and Hazel Strand's signature, in ink; contents loose as issued; in the original shipping box. 1916-63; printed 1981

Additional Details

The prints were made by Richard Bensen, and the portfolio published by Aperture.
"The White Fence," Port Kent, New York, 1916 "Blind Woman," New York, 1916 "Iris," Georgetown, Maine, 1928 "Truckman's House," New York, 1920 "Cobweb in Rain," Georgetown, Maine, 1927 "Mr. Bennett," Vermont, 1944 "Fox River," Gaspé, 1936 "Young Boy," Gondeville, Charente, France, 1951 "The Camargue," France, 1951 "Oil Refinery," Tema, Ghana, 1963.