Feb 25, 2016 - Sale 2406

Sale 2406 - Lot 163

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
WILLIAM KLEIN (1928- )
Portfolio entitled New York 54/55. With 12 (of 12) stirring photographs of New York scenes. Silver prints, each 11 1/2x8 5/8 inches (29.2x21.9 cm.), and the reverse, each with Klein's signature, set number 16, and the portfolio title, in pencil, on verso; each hinge-mounted in individual mats with the title, in pencil, below the image. Elephant folio-sized clamshell box with the stamped title; with Klein's signature and edition number 16, in pencil, on the colophon; contents loose as issued. one of an edition of 60 copies. Paris: Atelier J.M. Bustamante/Bernard Saint-Genès, 1954-55; printed 1978

Additional Details

Dance in Brooklyn, 1954 Spanish Harlem, 1954 Upper Broadway, 1954 57th Street, 1954 Horn & Hardart's, 1954 5th Avenue, 1954 Xmas, Macy's, 1954 First Avenue, 1955 Near the Docks, 1955 Sweeney's, 3rd Avenue, 1955 St. Patrick's Day, 1955 Elsa Maxwell's Toy Ball, 1955.