Mar 24, 2011 - Sale 2240

Sale 2240 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 6,480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
DOUGLAS OF DETROIT (active 1940-1970)
Binder containing 54 photographs of the American male physique, including poseurs Ward Heath, Wendell Meyer, Bob Delmonque,Vic Seipke, Harry Smith, Gene Staggs, Robert Lansing, Bob DeWeese, Bob McCune, Peter Jacobs, Bill Taylor, Mark Emery, and others. Silver prints, 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), many with Bill Bryant's notations on verso. 1950s

Additional Details

A gathering of select photographs by the legendary Douglas, which was first collected by "Denny of San Francisco" and subsequently acquired, and greatly expanded, by Bay Area collector Bill Bryant. The lot includes the great, and graphic, double exposure of a young Ward Heath.