Mar 11, 2021 - Sale 2561

Sale 2561 - Lot 301

Price Realized: $ 5,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
ELIOT PORTER (1901-1990)
Portfolio entitled China. With 7 (of 7) vividly-printed photographs. Dye transfer prints, the images measuring 9 1/2x14 1/2 to 11 3/8x14 1/2 inches (24.1x36.8 to 28.9x36.8 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets 14x18 inches (35.6x45.7 cm.), each with Porter's signature, in ink, on recto; individually matted. Elephant folio-sized gilt-lettered red cloth clamshell case; the edition notation 44 on the colophon; contents loose as issued. ONE OF 50 NUMBERED COPIES. D.E.P. Editions, Inc., 1980; printed 1984

The Kong Forest, Confucius's family cemetery, Qufu, Shandong, * Ferry, Chongqing, Sichuan, * Imperial Palace, Peking, * Lotus and azolla, West Lake, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, * Yuantong Monastery, Kunming, Yunnan, * Black Dragon Falls, Lushan, Jiangxi, * Bamboo grove near Hangzhou, Zhejiang