Apr 04, 2012 - Sale 2274

Sale 2274 - Lot 311

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
STOUMEN, LOU (1916-1991)
Portfolio titled "Times Square 1940: A Paper Movie," containing 18 photographs of the people and architecture of the New York City landmark. Silver prints, each 12x9 inches (30.5x22.9 cm.), and the reverse, flush mounted, each with Stoumen's signature and edition notation 20/25, in pencil, on print recto, and with a printed portfolio label with the title, dates, and negative number, in pencil, on mount verso; each print housed in an individual folder with a printed caption. Small folio, brown-stamped silver clamshell box; with the title and colophon pages, one with Stoumen's signature and the edition notation; contents loose as issued. Los Angeles: The Witkin Gallery & the G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, 1940; printed 1977