Apr 18, 2019 - Sale 2506

Sale 2506 - Lot 227

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
ELIOT PORTER (1901-1990)
A portfolio entitled Western Landscapes. Complete with 12 photographs highlighting the natural wonders of the American landscape. Dye transfer prints, the images each measuring approximately 14x17 3/4 inches (35.6x45.1 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 20x24 inches (50.8x61 cm.), each with Porter's signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and with his hand stamp with the negative number and title, in ink, on mount verso; each print is enclosed on a paper folder with the printed title. Elephant folio-sized clamshell box with a gilt-lettered leather spine; the colophon with the edition notation 50, in ink. ONE OF 5O + 12 LIMITED EDITION SETS. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Eliot Porter with Scheinbaum & Russek Gallery, 1988

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Cactus Blossoms, Big Bend, Texas The Colorado River at Mile 197, Grand Canyon, Arizona Great Sand Dune National Monument, Colorado Twin Lakes, Beartooth Mountain, Montana Hellebore and Columbine, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico Mt. Baker, Washington White Sands National Monument, New Mexico View of the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona Flowers and Stump, Zion National Park, Utah Mt. Rainier, Washington Natural Arch, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah Canyonlands National Park, Utah.