May 19, 2011 - Sale 2248

Sale 2248 - Lot 212

Price Realized: $ 21,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
EVANS, WALKER (1903-1975)
Choice group of 5 photographs from the portfolio "Walker Evans." Silver prints, approximately 9 1/4x7 1/4 inches (23.5x18.4 cm.), and the reverse, each with Evans's signature and the plate number, edition number and negative/print dates, in pencil, on mount recto. Tall folio, black-stamped tan folding case with black linen slipcase; with the edition number, in ink, on the colophon; contents loose as issued. one of an edition of 100 copies. 1935-1936; printed 1971

Additional Details

XII. "Tenant Farmer's Wife, Alabama," 1936 I. "Minstrel Showbill, Alabama," 1936 II. "Boarding House Porch, Birmingham, Alabama," 1936 VII. "Country Church near Beaufort, South Carolina," 1935 X. "Child's Grave, Alabama," 1936.