Apr 18, 2019 - Sale 2506

Sale 2506 - Lot 32

Price Realized: $ 17,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 18,000 - $ 22,000
ALFRED STIEGLITZ.
CAMERA WORK, Number 36.
Edited by Alfred Stieglitz. A seminal issue, complete with 17 photogravures, 16 after Stieglitz's photographs, including his iconic image The Steerage. 4to, original printed gray wrappers; backstrip perished; front cover and flyleaf detached; the gravures clean and richly printed.

WITH--Camera Work Number 36. 4to, original printed gray wrappers; lacks all 17 plates.
New York, 1911

Additional Details

From the Library of James Newberry.

The issues are originally from the Collection of Stieglitz's brother, Julius Stieglitz (1867-1937), a noted Chicago chemist and esteemed long-term faculty member at the University of Chicago. They were acquired from Hanzel Gallery, Chicago, Illinois in the late 1960s-early 1970s.

The City of Ambition The City Across the River The Ferry Boat The Mauretania Lower Manhattan Old and New New York The Aeroplane A Dirigible The Steerage Excavating--New York The Swimming Lesson The Pool--Deal The Hand of Man In the New York Central Yards The Terminal Spring Showers, New York Picasso drawing.