May 18, 2006 - Sale 2080

Sale 2080 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 6,900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 9,000 - $ 12,000
BOURKE-WHITE, MARGARET (1904-1971)
T.W.A. airplane in hangar. Silver print, 9 1/2x13 1/4 inches (24.2x33.5 cm.), with Bourke-White's signature and inscription on mount recto; framed. 1935

Additional Details

this print was formerly in the collection of ina and gerald corkum, who were featured in a Fortune magazine article, entitled "Success Story," illustrated by Bourke-White. (A photostatic copy of the article accompanies the lot.) Her inscription reads: "To the Corkums, My most hospitable photographic subjects."