Jun 10, 2015 - Sale 2387

Sale 2387 - Lot 76

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(HIGH LOFT PRESS.) Brandt, Sebastian. The Shyp of Fooles. Edited by Phyllis C. Robinson. Printed in grey, black, and burgundy. Woodblock illustrations after Albrecht Dürer. 4to, 1/4 linen-backed boards, printed paper label to spine. number 64 of 200 copies. Ex-collection Anatole Pohorilenko, ex-dono Monroe Wheeler, Director of Exhibitions and Publications, The Museum of Modern Art. Seal Harbor, 1982

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From the Estate of Anatole Pohorilenko, a close friend and companion of Wheeler and Glenway Wescott who also authored the biography of their friendship with George Platt Lynes (When We Were Three, Arena Editions, 1998). Pohorilenko was born in Lubeck, Germany to Ukrainian and German parents and lived in the Displaced Persons Camp in Burgdorf until 1947 when he relocated to Brazil before emigrating to the U.S. Settling and receiving his education in Philadelphia, he became a distinguished anthropologist and archaeologist in his own right.