Oct 05, 2023 - Sale 2647

Sale 2647 - Lot 291

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
ELIOT PORTER (1901-1990)
A portfolio titled Certain Passages. Complete with 8 beautiful photographs of the American wilderness. Dye transfer prints, the images measuring approximately 15 3/4x12 1/4 and 16x12 1/2 inches (40x31.1 and 40.6x31.8 cm.), and the reverse, each with Porter's signature in pencil on mount recto; each housed in an individual folder with the printed title. Elephant-sized folio, clamshell box with a gilt-lettered red leather title label; the colophon, with the number 128 (of 300) in pencil; contents loose as issued. FROM AN EDITION OF 300. New York: Daniel Wolf Press, Inc., 1942-76; printed 1989

Gray's Arch, Red River Gorge, Kentucky, 1968 * Apples, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, 1942 * Asters and Raspberries, Oak Island, Maine, 1973 * Foxtail Grass, Great Sand Dunes, Colorado, 1976 * Edge of the Colorado River at Mile 122, Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1967 * Water-streaked Wall, Warm Springs Canyon, Utah, 1965 * Aspens, Colorado, 1959 * Bracken and Hawkweed, Michigan, 1973