Oct 18, 2018 - Sale 2489

Sale 2489 - Lot 172

Price Realized: $ 7,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
W. EUGENE SMITH (1918-1978)
The Spinner, Spanish Village. Silver print, the image measuring 16 1/2x11 1/4 inches (41.9x29.8 cm.), with Smith's signature, with a stylus, on recto, and with two hand stamps and notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1951

Additional Details

Deaccessioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York; to a Private American Collector.

Smith, Master of the Photographic Essay: W. Eugene Smith (Aperture), cover & p. 76.

Mora, W. Eugene Smith Photographs 1934-1975 (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.), back cover, p. 115.

Maddow, Let Truth Be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith: His Life and Photographs (Aperture), p. 159.

W. Eugene Smith (Aperture), np.

Kirstein, W. Eugene Smith: His Photographs and Notes (Aperture), np.

Stephenson, W. Eugene Smith 55, p. 53.