May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 91

Price Realized: $ 4,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
EVANS, WALKER.
The Brooklyn Bridge.

A stunning portfolio complete with 9 hand-pulled photogravures after Evans' evocative photographs of the New York monument taken in 1929, accompanied by Hart Crane's poem memorializing the bridge. Photogravures, each measuring 9 7/8x5 7/8 inches (25.1x14.9 cm.), and the reverse, each with Evans' and the publisher's debossed credit, and the edition notation c, in pencil, on recto. Folio-sized clamshell box with a paper title label; with the colophon; contents loose as issued. limited edition, this one of the 15 publisher's proofs. The Eakins Press Foundation, 1994
The Eakins Press Foundation, 1994