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Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
LES KRIMS (1942- ) Portfolio entitled Idiosyncratic Pictures. This portfolio is complete with all 15 photographs, of which only a random assortment of 10 would have been included in a standard set. Selenium-toned silver prints, the images measuring 15 1/4x18 inches (38.7x45.7 cm.), the sheets 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), each with Krims' signature, title, and dates, and all but one with the edition notation 3/35, in pencil, and all but one with his hand stamp with the date, also in pencil, on verso; 10 are matted with Krims' embossed initials on recto and with an archival tracing vellum interleafing sheet, the remaining 5 laid in. Elephant folio-sized silver-stamped folding case and slipcase; the colophon with the edition notation 3, in pencil, the plate list, and an essay by Krims titled The Spirit of the $50 Print After Death. FROM A LIMITED EDITION OF 35 SETS. Self-published, 1979-80; printed 1980
. . .Buffalo Fashion: Watch Your P's and Jews; True; a Breadline; and an Oxymoron (Big Moron), 1979 * Ménage a Trout; and a Thought for Kid Twist, 1980 * G.I. Freud, 1980 * A Test of Exposure, Development, and a Punk Prank, 1979 * Dumping Leaves Nothing, 1979 * The Stains on Both Sides of My Mattress Labeled; and a Testimonial. . .Side #2: N-Z, 1979 * A Trick for Man Ray, 1979 * Kike Camera, 1979 * A Jewish Vase; and a Chinese Torture, 1980 * Ten, Dark, Sweet, Ponds, 1979 * The Wandering Jew. . .and His Jewmobile, 1980 * A Touching Picture of Mother and Son; A Man's Best Friend Is His Model; and Look at the Little Jew with the Camera on Her Shoe, 1980 * A New Miracle for Veronica: Healing Krims' Eye, 1979 * Les Krims Teaches Them to Do It Abe Reles Style: Ice Picks for Kid Twist; Black Dicks - a New Twist; and a Picture Designed to Piss-Off Danny, 1980 * A Rake's Revisionist Regress; . . .Buffalo Fashion: Christmas Presents for Nuns; an Assortment of Effective Remedies; Nancy M. Memorial Sticks Scattered; She Had Any Number of Lines; and a Colored Picture, 1980.
