Oct 18, 2011 - Sale 2257

Sale 2257 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
STEINER, RALPH (1899-1986)
Group of 7 prints from the portfolio entitled "Early & Late," with lyrical, abstract photographs spanning a few decades of the photographer's career. Silver prints, 3 3/4x4 3/4 to 6 3/4x9 inches (9.5x12.1 to 17.1x22.9 cm.), and the reverse, each with Steiner's signature and dates, in pencil, on verso and on the overmat. Folio, tan clamshell case, with a cartoonish black-stamped drawing of the photographer on recto; with Steiner's signature and edition notation 2, in ink, on the colophon; contents loose as issued. one of 50 numbered copies. 1924-1980; printed 1980-1981

Additional Details

"Vanderbilt Garage," 1924 "Self-Portrait," 1929 "Monhegan Sunset," 1980 "Sidney J. Perelman," 1935 "Palmetto, Martinique," 1967 "Clouds Monhegan," 1964 "Sapling in the Snow," 1977.