Oct 15, 2015 - Sale 2393

Sale 2393 - Lot 348

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
SMITH, HENRY HOLMES (1909-1986)
"Death of Punch." Dye-transfer print, 13 7/8x10 inches (35.2x25.4 cm.), with Smith's signature, title, and dates, in pencil, and a date hand stamp, on verso. 1960-75

Additional Details

with--A variant "Death of Punch." Silver print, 9 1/4x6 3/4 inches (23.5x17.1 cm.), with Smith's credit, title, and date, in pencil, in Welpott's hand, on mount verso. 1961.

From the Family of Photographer and Educator Jack Welpott.

Henry Holmes Smith, Photographs 1931-1986: a Retrospective, Howard Greenberg Gallery, 1992, p. 11 (where it is dated 1959-75).