Feb 19, 2009 - Sale 2170

Sale 2170 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
BOURKE-WHITE, MARGARET (1904-1971)
Untitled (Curtiss Gulfhawks). Warm-toned silver print, 9 1/4x13 1/4 inches (23.5x33.7 cm.), with Bourke-White's signature, in pencil, on mount recto and her hand stamp on mount verso. Circa 1933
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Additional Details

It is believed that this photograph of Curtiss''s Gulfhawk was commissioned by Gulf Oil, which owned the fleet of planes. Major Alfred Williams (see lot 51) flew the planes in public air shows, from 1933-36, to promote military aviation.