Apr 27, 2023 - Sale 2634

Sale 2634 - Lot 144

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(TALIESIN & FALLING WATER)
A selection of 8 real photo postcards documenting Frank Lloyd Wright's commissions and a portrait of the architect.
Includes two duplicate images of Falling Water, Bear Run, Pennsylvania (with Museum of Modern Art printed captions on verso); a view of Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin (with a message composed after a visit but no postage); Taliesin West, Maricopa Mesa near Phoenix, Arizona (with a printed Museum of Modern Art caption); three cards depicting the interior of a San Francisco Store Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for V.C. Morris; and a portrait of the architect with a stylized backing and Wright postage stamps. Silver prints on carte-postale paper, the images measuring 3 1/2x5 1/2 inches (8.9x14 cm.), and the reverse, two with captions in the negative on recto, and each with a printed photographer's credit and caption on verso. 1950s