Dec 13, 2011 - Sale 2265

Sale 2265 - Lot 141

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
SWEET, OZZIE (1918- )
Yogi Berra. Cibachrome print, 24x20 inches (61x50.8), with Sweet's signature, in ink, on print verso and the Maxwell Davidson, New York gallery label on the back of the frame, with the edition notation 1/25. 1957; printed later

Additional Details

Sweet, who's fondly characterized as 'the Babe Ruth of photographers,' has tallied the Ruthian number of 1,800 magazine cover credits. He's most famous for his iconic work for Sport magazine, where he worked from 1949 to the early 1960s.

From the Maxwell Davidson Gallery; to a private collector.