May 19, 2011 - Sale 2248

Sale 2248 - Lot 172

Price Realized: $ 5,520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
CLIFT, WILLIAM (1944- )
Portfolio titled "New Mexico" complete with 8 lyrical images of the vast landscape. Silver prints, from approximately 6 1/2x8 to 9x13 inches (16.5x20.3 to 22.9x33 cm.), and the reverse, each with Clift's signature, in pencil, on mount recto. Folio, brown linen clamshell case with a paper title label and hand carved ivory clasp; with the edition number, in ink, on the colophon; contents loose as issued. one of an edition of 100 numbered copies. 1972-1974; printed 1975

Additional Details

"Landscape," 1973 "Swing," 1973 "Corral, Hondo Valley," 1972 "Charis, Bandelier," 1974 "Apple Blossoms, Velarde," 1973 "Aspens, Hyde Park," 1972 "Peter Hurd Home, San Patricio," 1972 "Black Mesa, San Ildefonso," 1973.
From the Witkin Gallery, New York; to the present owner circa 1980.