May 16, 2024 - Sale 2669

Sale 2669 - Lot 273

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
LOUIS STETTNER (1922-2016)
Portfolio entitled Portraits. Complete with 13 photographs. Silver prints, the images measuring 18x12 inches (45.7x30.5 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets 20x16 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), and slightly smaller, each with Stettner's blind stamp on recto, and his signature, title, negative date, and edition notation 2/3 in pencil, on verso. Folio-sized gray folder with the handwritten title in black ink on the cover; the prints are enclosed in a folder with the handwritten colophon on the front, including Stettner's signature and the edition number 2, in ink; contents loose as issued. ONE OF THREE SIGNED AND NUMBERED PORTFOLIOS PLUS ONE ARTIST PROOF. Self-published, 1974-88; printed 1989

Janet, 1988 * Woman in the Stoking Cap, 1974 * Heather, 1988 * Anton, 1986 * Anton - 4 hours old, 1982 * Times Square Lady, 1987 * Brassaï, 1983 * Isabel "sic Transit Gloria Mundi," 1986 * Pea Vendor, Wall St., 1987 * Michèle, 1988 * Dame of New York, 1984 * Coal Miner, Lens, France, 1978 * Tim, 1988