Oct 15, 2015 - Sale 2393

Sale 2393 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 3,900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
VISHNIAC, ROMAN (1897-1990)
"Slonim, 1939" * "Fear, Kristallnacht, 1938." Together, 2 photographs. Silver prints, 10 3/4x8 3/4 and 14 1/4x10 3/4 inches (27.4x23.9 and 37.9x29 cm.), the first mounted to a thin sheet, with Vishniac's handwritten note, in ink, affixed with cellotape, and numeric notations, in an unknown hand, in pencil, on mount verso; the second with Vishniac's signature, in ink, on recto and a typed caption label and notations, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1938-39; printed later

Additional Details

Vishniac's handwritten note attached to the first print reads: "The student has borrowed a school textbook At the end of the school year he must give it back."