May 20, 2010 - Sale 2215

Sale 2215 - Lot 288

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
VISHNIAC, ROMAN (1897-1990)
"Vilna." Silver print, 11 1/2x10 3/4 inches (29.2x27.3 cm.), with Vishniac's signature, in pencil, his initials and a date, in ink, and an inscription in Cyrillic, in ink, on mount recto; with a period label with the title and date, in ink, on mount recto. 1939; printed 1940s
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Vishniac's personal inscription reads, "With fond and lasting memories to N. [Nechemia] Glezer from S. Vishniac and the author R.V. [Roman Vishniac]." Glezer was an art dealer in Vilna, Lithuania, where he apparently met Vishniac.

By descent to his wife, Ida, who co-owned the Glezer Gallery on Madison Avenue, New York; to the present owner.