Oct 21, 2021 - Sale 2583

Sale 2583 - Lot 266

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
OLIVIA PARKER (1941- )
A portfolio entitled Ephemera. Complete with 10 elegant and poetic still life photographs. Selenium-toned silver prints, the images measuring 4 3/4x3 3/4 to 7x5 inches (12.1x9.5 to 17.8x12.7 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets 7x5 to 10x8 inches (17.8x12.7 to 25.4x20.3 cm.), each with Parker's signature, title, dates, edition notation EA 1/2, and the notation Ephemera Folio I, in ink, on recto; individually matted. Folio-sized taupe cloth clamshell box, with gilt-lettered leather title labels; the printed title page, plate list, introduction by György Kepes, and colophon with edition notation EA I, in ink; contents loose as issued. FROM AN EDITION OF 25 SETS WITH 2 EAs. 1975-77; printed 1977

Bosc, 1977 * Cinquefoil, 1975 * Pods of Chance, 1977 * Moment, 1976 * Orchids, 1976 * Mixed Nuts, 1976 * On the Wing, 1976 * An Orderly Mind, 1977 * Rose, 1976 * Evidence, 1977

Additional Details

Gifted by Parker to the Present Owner, who designed and printed the Letter Press for the portfolio.