Oct 25, 2016 - Sale 2426

Sale 2426 - Lot 196

Price Realized: $ 87,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 40,000 - $ 60,000
YOUSUF KARSH (1908-2002)
Karsh--Fifteen Portraits. A portfolio with 15 (of 15) oversized photographic portraits by Karsh. Silver prints, the images measuring 23 3/4x19 7/8 inches (60.3x50.5 cm.), and smaller, the mounts 30x24 inches (76.2x61 cm.), each with Karsh's signature, in ink, and the edition notation 23/100, in pencil, on mount recto. Elephant folio, linen clamshell box with the stamped leather title; with the colophon; in the original shipping box; contents loose as issued. ONE OF 100 NUMBERED COPIES. Weston Gallery, 1941-70; printed 1983

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Muhammad Ali, 1970 Pablo Casals, 1954 Marc Chagall, 1965 Winston Churchill, 1941 Jacques Cousteau, 1972 Albert Einstein, 1948 Robert Frost, 1958 Ernest Hemingway, 1957 Helen Keller, 1948 Joan Miro, 1967 Georgia O'Keeffe, 1956 Pablo Picasso, 1954 Albert Schweitzer, 1954 George Bernard Shaw, 1943 Jean Sibelius, 1949.


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