Dec 17, 2024 - Sale 2691

Sale 2691 - Lot 46

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
W. EUGENE SMITH (1918-1978)
Welder, Pittsburgh. 1955-56; printed 1960s.
Silver print, the image measuring 6x8½ inches (15.2x21.6 cm.), the sheet 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), with Smith's credit, copyright, and address in his assistant's Leslie Teicholz's hand, and her signature, and the notation "Aperture cover" in pencil, on verso.

Provenance
Swann Galleries, sale 1989, lot 588, December 9, 2003; to the Collection of Neil Robert Berzak

Reproduced
W. Eugene Smith, An Aperture Monograph (Aperture Ltd., 1969), cover