Apr 04, 2012 - Sale 2274

Sale 2274 - Lot 376

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES (active 1950s-1960s)
Suite of 50 images of bodybuilders, including Bob McCune, Martin Adams, Art Ullrich, Steve Reeves, Jerry DeBry, and Tom Mathews, among others, posing with props or outdoors, amd frequently in the nude. Silver and ferrotyped silver prints (7), each approximately 9 1/2x7 1/2 inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), and the reverse, all but 7 with the Estate of Bruce of Los Angeles hand stamp with executor Jimmy Dolinksy's signature, in pencil; some with additional hand stamps, and many with the sitter's name, in a later hand. 1960s