Oct 17, 2019 - Sale 2520

Sale 2520 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 10,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868-1952)
Self-portrait in felt hat. Photogravure on wove paper, the image measuring 10x7 inches (25.2x17.6 cm.), the sheet 10 3/4x15 1/4 inches (27.3x38.7 cm.), with the John Andrew & Son, Boston credit and "Photogravure" printed on recto. 1899

AND--Porcupine - Cheyenne, pl. 216 * Chief Hector - Assiniboin, pl. 629. Together, 2 photogravures on Hollande Van Gelder and vellum papers, the images measuring 15 1/2x11 3/4 inches (39.4x29.8 cm.), the sheets 22 1/4x18 1/4 inches (56.5x46.3 cm.), with Curtis' credit, title, date, plate number, and the printers' credits printed on recto. 1910 and 1926

Additional Details

Cardozo, ed., Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian (Simon & Schuster), p. 18.

Graybill and Boesen, Edward Sheriff Curtis: Visions of a Vanishing Race (Crowell), unpaginated.