Oct 02, 2001 - Sale 1907

Sale 1907 - Lot 440

Price Realized: $ 25,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 30,000
VISHNIAC, ROMAN
Portfolio entitled "The Vanished World." With 12 photographs of Jewish life in eastern Europe and Russia. A printed presentation pamphlet, signed by Vishniac, is laid in and an illustrated booklet is set into the front pocket. Selenium-toned silver prints, 14x11 inches, each is signed by Vishniac, in ink, on mount recto. Folio-size clamshell presentation case, brown cloth with mounted photographic reproduction. one of 25 numbered copies. Witkin-Berley: New York, 1977

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"Entrance to the Ghetto, 1938" "One of the People of the Book, Warsaw, 1938" "The Face of Wisdom, Cracow, 1936" "Peddlers Transformed into Beggars by the Boycott, 1938" "Grandfather and Granddaughter, Lublin, 1937" "At the Open Fire, Carpathian Ruthenia, 1938" "Jewish Peasant, Carpatho-Ukraine, 1937" "Heder, Slonim, Russia, 1938" "Three-Student School, Carpathian Ruthenia, 1938" "The Only Flowers of her Youth, Warsaw, 1938" "One-Room Apartment Workshop, Warsaw, 1936" "Synagogue Court, Vilna, 1938."