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105 ● KLEIN,WILLIAM (1928- )
Portfolio titled “William Klein NewYork 54/55,” with 12 gritty photographs of NewYork City.
Silver prints, sizes ranging from approximately 9x12 to 73/4x113/4 inches (22.9x30.5 to 19.7x29.8
cm.), and the reverse, each with Klein’s signature, the portfolio title, and edition number E.A.V, in
pencil, on verso; each print is individually matted with the titles, in pencil, below the image on the
undermat. Folio-size black cloth clamshell box; the colophon, also with Klein’s signature and the
edition number E.A.V (artist’s proof), in pencil; contents loose as issued. 1954-1955; printed 1978
[14,000/18,000]
From a Private Collection, NewYork.
“Dance in Brooklyn, September 1954” * “Spanish Harlem, September 1954” * “Upper Broadway,
October 1954” * “57th Street, November 1954” * “Horn & Hardart’s, November 1954” * “5th
Avenue, November 1954” * “Xmas, Macy’s, December 1954” * “First Avenue, January 1955” *
“Near the docks, January 1955” * “Sweeney’s, 3rd Avenue, February 1955” * “St. Patrick’s Day,
March 1955” * “Elsa Maxwell’s Toy Ball, March 1955.”