Dec 09, 2010 - Sale 2233

Sale 2233 - Lot 367

Price Realized: $ 2,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
NEWTON, HELMUT.
SUMO.
Edited by June Newton. Illustrated with over 400 full-page reproductions of Newton's striking photographs. Oversize folio, photo-pictorial boards; creases on signature page; photo-pictorial dust jacket, minor wear with linear rub to front, creases and peeling acetate along edge of spine. first edition, boldly signed by newton.
Taschen, 1999

Additional Details

From the Estate of Peter Baekeland Roll, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863-1944), Peter's grandfather, was a Belgium chemist who is credited as the inventor of both Bakelite (a popular plastic used in fashion jewelry) and Velox photographic paper.