Apr 27, 2023 - Sale 2634

Sale 2634 - Lot 244

Price Realized: $ 11,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
KARL STRUSS (1886-1981)
A Portfolio 1909/29. With 15 (of 15) beautiful photographs spanning the early decades of Struss' career. Platinum prints, the images measuring 2 3/4x3 3/4 to 4 3/8x3 5/8 inches (7x8.9 to 11.1x9.2 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 12x9 inches (30.5x22.9 cm.), each with Struss' signature in pencil on print verso and an edition notation 35/75 in pencil, on mount recto. Tall 4to-sized black clamshell box with Struss' gilt-lettered monogram; the colophon with Struss' and Phil Davis' signatures in ink; contents loose as issued; with the original mylar wrapper, also with Struss' monogram. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 75. Michigan: Photofolio of Ann Arbor, 1909-29; printed 1979

The Balcony, Sorrento, 1909 * Arverne, Low Tide, 1912 * Mercedes Autobus. Fifth Avenue & 38th Street, New York, circa 1912 * Shadows. New York, 1909 * Consolidated Edison from the Second Avenue Elevated. New York, circa 1912 * Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower. New York, 1909 * Pennsylvania Station. New York, 1911 * Lower Broadway. New York, 1912 * "The Ghost Ship"--Waterfront, East Side. New York, 1912 * Vanishing Point II: Brooklyn Bridge from New York side, 1912 * Brooklyn Bridge, Nocturne, circa 1913 * Brooklyn Bridge from Ferry Slip, Evening, 1912 * Cables--New York Skyline through Brooklyn Bridge, 1912 * Storm Clouds, La Mesa, California, 1921 * Sails: En Route to Catalina, 1929