Oct 25, 2016 - Sale 2426

Sale 2426 - Lot 116

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
WRIGHT MORRIS (1910-1998)
Wright Morris. Portfolio with 12 (of 12) photographs depicting the American landscape of the 1940s. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 9 1/2x7 1/2 inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 17x14 inches (43.2x35.6 cm.), each with Morris' signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and with the Witkin-Berley portfolio label with the print and edition number 20, in pencil, on mount verso. Small folio, cream cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered brown leather title label, cloth lightly soiled; the colophon, also with the edition number 20 (of 50); contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 50. Witkin-Berley Limited, 1940-50; printed 1980
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From the Estate of Lee Witkin; by descent to the Present Owner.

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