Sep 26, 2024 - Sale 2679

Sale 2679 - Lot 172

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

MELVIN SOKOLSKY (1933-2022)


Over New York, from the Bubble series. 1963; printed 1996.
Silver print, the image measuring 25¼x20¼ cm,10x8 inches, the sheet 35½x28 cm,14x11 inches; with Sokolsky's signature, title, negative date, and edition notation "Portfolio APs" in pencil on verso.

This print, the only one taken from Weehawken, New Jersey, on January 14th, 1963, was included in Sokolsky's portfolio Paris, 1963 published by Leafcar Editions, Los Angeles, in 1996. This portfolio was published as an edition of 25 plus 5 artist's proofs.