Dec 17, 2024 - Sale 2691

Sale 2691 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
EDWARD STEICHEN (1879-1973)
A portfolio entitled The Early Years 1920-1927. 1920-27; printed 1981.
Introduction by Beaumont Newhall. Complete with 12 beautiful photogravures on BFK Rives Paper by Jon Goodman and Richard Benson, the images measuring 10x12 inches (25.4x39.5 cm.), and smaller, the sheets 20x15¼ inches (50.8x38.7 cm.). Folio-sized gilt-lettered Indian tussah silk slipcase; with Mary Steichen Calderone's and Newhall's signatures and the edition notation 386 in ink on the colophon; with an Aperture prospectus laid in; contents loose as issued. FROM AN EDITION OF 500. Gordonsville, Georgia: Aperture Publishers

Provenance
The Collection of Neil Robert Berzak

Grand Prix at Longchamp: After the Races, Paris, 1907 * Self-Portrait with Sister, Milwaukee, 1900 * Torso, Paris, 1902 * Moonrise, Mamaroneck, New York, 1904 * In Memoriam, New York, 1902 * Steichen and Wife Clara on Their Honeymoon, Lake George, New York, 1903 * Richard Strauss, New York, 1904 * The Flatiron, New York, 1905 * Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France, 1914 * Isadora Duncan at the Portal of the Parthenon, Athens, 1920 * Three Pears and an Apple, France, circa 1921 * Brancusi in His Studio, Paris, 1925