Feb 26, 2013 - Sale 2304

Sale 2304 - Lot 26

Price Realized: $ 12,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
STRUSS, KARL (1886-1981)
A portfolio titled "Karl Struss: A Portfolio, 1909/29," with 15 photographs spanning the early decades of Struss' career. Platinum prints, sizes ranging from 2 3/4x3 1/2 to 4 3/8x3 5/8 inches (7x8.9 to 11.1x9.2 cm.), and the reverse, each tipped to stiff mounts, with Struss' signature, in pencil, on print verso, and with the edition notation 19/75, also in pencil, on mount recto. Tall 4to, black clamshell box with Struss' gilt-lettered monogram; the colophon with Struss and Phil Davis' (the printer) signatures, and the edition number, in ink; contents loose as issued. 1909-1929; printed 1979

Additional Details

"The Balcony, Sorrento," 1909 "Arverne, Low Tide," 1912 "Mercedes Autobus, Fifth Avenue & 38th Street, New York," circa 1912 "Shadows, New York," 1909 "Consolidated Edison from the Second Avenue Elevated, New York," circa 1912 "Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower, New York," 1909 "Pennsylvania Station, New York," 1911 "Lower Broadway, New York," 1912 "'The Ghost Ship'--Waterfront, East Side, New York," 1912 "Vanishing Point II: Brooklym Bridge from New York side," 1912 "Brooklyn Bridge, Nocturne," circa 1913 "Brooklyn Bridge from Ferry Slip, Evening," 1912 "Cables--New York Skyline through Brooklyn Bridge," 1912 "Storm Clouds, Ma Mesa, California," 1921 "Sails: En route to Catalina," 1929.