Dec 11, 2012 - Sale 2298

Sale 2298 - Lot 156

Price Realized: $ 4,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
BOURKE-WHITE, MARGARET (1904-1971)
Wall Street Traders executing orders. Warm-toned silver print, 9 1/2x13 inches (24.1x 34 cm.), on the original mount, with Bourke-White's hand stamp on mount verso. Circa 1935

Additional Details

This print was originally in the Estate of Sanford Griffith, Head of Wall St. Journal and Herald Tribune, in 1930. Later on, he was an undercover operative for the Jewish Defense League, where his m.o. was to infiltrate Neo-Nazi groups. He was also Bourke-White's paramour.