Feb 28, 2012 - Sale 2270

Sale 2270 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 5,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
STRUSS, KARL (1886-1981)
A selection of 24 plates from the portfolio "48 Photographs of the Female Figure, First Series." Silver prints (22) and four-color (2) photo-mechanical reproductions, sizes ranging from 4 1/4x3 to 9 1/4x7 inches (10.8x7.6 to 23.5x17.8 cm.), and the reverse, approximately 15 with a copyright in the negative, 5 with a Nicholas Muray hand stamp on print verso and one with a Karl Struss Female Figure hand stamp on print verso; tipped into individual folders (one folder has two photographs). Folio, gilt-lettered clamshell box with a mounted illustration by Herbert E. Martini on the front cover; with the printed matter laid in; contents loose as issued. New York: R. Kotausek, Nd