FEIN NAT (1914 2000) Babe Bows Out

Sale 2146 - Lot 402

Price Realized: $ 5,520

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000

FEIN, NAT (1914-2000)
'Babe Bows Out." Silver print, 10 1/2x13 1/4 inches (26.6x333.6 cm.), with Fein's signature and inscription on recto. 1948

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This print was gifted by Fein to the collector's father; it has been in the family since the early 1950s.

The photograph was taken on June 13, 1948 at Yankee Stadium (the house that Ruth built) to commemorate the date Babe Ruth's number was retired. Ruth, frail and thin, wore his old uniform for the last time; he died two months later. This powerful image won a Pulitzer Prize in 1949.