Dec 10, 2020 - Sale 2554

Sale 2554 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 13,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JAMES VANDERZEE (1886 - 1983)
Couple, Harlem (Couple in Raccoon Coats)

Silver print, 1932. 184x239 mm; 7 1/4x9 3/8 inches. Signed and numbered XVI and 70/75 in pencil on the mount. Printed and published by Richard Benson and Graphics International Ltd., Washington, DC in 1974. From Eighteen Photographs.

This photograph of a Harlem couple dressed in fur with their Cadillac on West 127th Street is VanDerZee's most iconic image.