Oct 31, 2024 - Sale 2684

Sale 2684 - Lot 217

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
RALPH GIBSON (1939- )
Leda and the Swan. 1974.
Silver print, the image measuring 8⅜x12⅞ inches (21.3x32.7 cm.), the sheet 11x14 inches (27.9x35.6 cm.), with Peter Thompson's inscription and dates on verso.

This print is accompanied by a dated letter from Peter Thompson, who was an artist and the head of the California chapter of Friends of Photography, to Ralph Gibson. The letter documents Gibson's gifted print to commemorate Thompson's wedding and discusses an upcoming workshop Gibson would give. The lot also includes a photograph of Gibson (10x8 silver print).

Provenance
Ralph Gibson; to Peter Thompson in 1974; to the Present Owner