Oct 25, 2016 - Sale 2426

Sale 2426 - Lot 91

Price Realized: $ 7,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
WILLIAM MORTENSEN (1897-1965)
A portfolio of 12 plates related to Mortensen's interpretation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 9 1/2x7 1/2 inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), the sheets 13x9 3/4 inches (33x24.8 cm.), each with Mortensen's signature, in pencil, on recto, and with the Rubaiyat quatrain, in pencil, in Mortensen's hand, on verso; enclosed in a patterned paper folder with a paper label, lightly worn. Circa 1925