Oct 19, 2017 - Sale 2458

Sale 2458 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 910
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
TONI FRISSELL (1907-1988)
A charming collection of 18 photographs depicting quiet moments on the airstrip as the 93rd Operations Group prepare for return from a mission. Including views of reunited friends welcoming each other, lounging airmen writing letters home, a trio reviewing a brief by the crude nose art of a bomber, and one man on all fours hugging the ground. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 11 inches (27.9 cm.) square, each with numeric notations, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1945

WITH--Toni Frissell. Portrait of an abandoned boy, London. Silver print, the image measuring 10 7/8x10 5/8 inches (27.6x27 cm.), with a typed descriptive caption on a separate sheet. 1945.

Additional Details

From Frissell's family; to the present owner.

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