Feb 26, 2013 - Sale 2304

Sale 2304 - Lot 94

Price Realized: $ 6,480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
PORTER, ELIOT (1901-1990)
Portfolio titled "Certain Passages." Containing 8 beautiful photographs of the American wilderness. Dye-transfer prints, sizes approximately 15 3/4x12 1/4 and 16x12 1/2 inches (40x31.1 and 40.6x31.8 cm.), and the reverse, each with Porter's signature, in pencil, on mount recto; and each housed in an individual folder with the printed title. Elephant folio, clamshell box with a gilt-lettered red leather title label; the colophon, with the number 139 (of 300), in pencil; contents loose as issued. 1942-1976; printed 1989

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"Gray's Arch, Red River Gorge, Kentucky," 1968 "Apples, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine," 1942 "Asters and Raspberries, Oak Island, Maine," 1973 "Foxtail Grass, Great Sand Dunes, Colorado," 1976 "Edge of the Colorado River at Mile 122, Grand Canyon, Arizona," 1967 "Water-streaked Wall, Warm Springs Canyon, Utah," 1965 "Aspens, Colorado," 1959 "Bracken and Hawkweed, Michigan," 1973.