Oct 21, 2008 - Sale 2158

Sale 2158 - Lot 355

Price Realized: $ 18,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
WEGMAN, WILLIAM (1943- )
Portfolio entitled "Letters, Numbers, Punctuation." With 44 charming photographs of his Weimaraners Fay, Battina, Crooky and Chundo. Silver prints, image size approximately 4x3 inches (10.2x7.6 cm.); sheet size 11x8 1/2 inches (28x21.6 cm.), with Wegman's initials, title, date and edition notations 3/26, in pencil, on verso. 4to, yellow linen clamshell case with an index card adhered to the front cover on which the title is written; contents loose as issued. New York: Pace/MacGill Gallery, 1993
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The portfolio consists of 26 letters, 10 numbers and 8 punctuation marks all of which employ Wegman's dogs in Busby Berkeley-like configurations.



Wegman's Weimaraners Fay Ray, Battina, Crooky and Chundo, frequent models for Wegman's photographs, display each digit in the English alphabet. Their natural lackadaisical state combines with athletic contortionism to provide a unique image on each page, which ultimately provides the necessary tools to formulate any sentence. Against a sparse white backdrop, the chocolate-colored dogs leap off the page, the contrast between animal and ground heightened by their unnatural manipulations.