Dec 11, 2012 - Sale 2298

Sale 2298 - Lot 398

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
WITH 2 POLAROID PRINTS (VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS) model, sieff, bravo, brandt, siskind
Selected self-portraits, including 4 photographs and one 4-part collage, and 4 Mexican portraits by Siskind. Unique Polaroid Type 52, Type 55, and SX-70 (5) prints, and a silver print after a Type 665 negative, sizes ranging from 3 inches square to 12x11 3/4 (the silver print) (7.6 square to 30.5x29.8 cm.), the Model collage mounted with her notations, in pencil, on recto and her signature, in ink, on verso, and her small self-portrait mounted with her signature, in pencil, on recto; the Siskinds each signed, in ink, on recto or verso, and with the Polaroid Collection stamp on mat verso. Circa 1978; 1980s (Siskinds)

Additional Details

with--Joel Meyerowitz. 2 unique Polaroid prints, including "Porch, Provincetown" and "Redhead," 9 1/2x7 1/2 and 3 1/2x3 inches (24.1x19.1 and 9x7.6 cm.), the second with Meyerowitz's signature, in ink, on recto. 1977 & 1980s.
From the Polaroid Collection.
The Sieff and Model 4-part collage were exhibited Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Instantanés, May-July 1980.
Lisette Model 4-part collage & Jeanloup Sieff both reproduced in the catalogue for the cited exhibition, pages 65 & 38 (these prints).
Jeanloup Sieff: The Polaroid Book (Köln, 2008), 215.
Three of the Siskinds were exhibited Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, September-November 2000 and traveling to 3 other venues through 2001; also reproduced in the catalogue for that exhibition, 18-20.
The Siskind of the small boy is reproduced in The Polaroid Book (Köln, 2008), 6 (this print).