Lot 196
(EDGERTON; SISKIND; PAPAGEORGE; and GOHLKE)
A box containing 40 prints by four 20th-century master photographers, with 10 each by Harold Edgerton, Aaron Siskind, Tod Papageorge, and Frank Gohlke. Silver prints, each of the images measuring approximately 18x14 1/4 inches (45.7x36.2 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.),each with the photographer's signature, in pencil, verso, and some with the titles and dates, in pencil or in ink, on recto or verso. 1934-81; printed 1980s
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Harold Edgerton: Rising Dove, 1934 * Atomic Bomb Explosion, 1932 * Water from a Faucet, 1932 * Antique Gun Firing, 1936 * Gussie Moran (Tennis), 1949 * Bullet Through Balloons, 1959 * Milk Drop Coronet, 1933 * Hammer Breaks Glass Plate, 1933 * Child Running, 1939 * Rodeo, 1940.
Aaron Siskind: Chicago 56, 1960 * New York I, 1951 * Lima 89 (Homage to Franz Kline), 1975 * Tabernacle City 4, 1936 * Lithuanian Shoemaker 3, 1957 * Volcano 114, 1980 * Cusco Wall 91, 1975 * Martha's Vineyard (Fishin Hand), 1939 * Feet 119, 1957 * Martha's Vineyard 2 (Seaweed), 1943.
Tod Papageorge: Man in Grass, 1981 * White Boy and Baby, 1981 * Zuma Beach, 1979 * Mad Magazine, 1978 * L'eggs Mini Marathon, 1979 * Metropolitan Museum of Art opening, 1977 * Building at Night, 1979 * Florence, 1979 * Studio 54 with Balloons, 1978 * Alice in Wonderland, 1978.
Frank Gohlke: Aerial view: Blowdown and new growth near Norway Pass - 9 miles NE of Mt. St. Helens, 1983 * Aerial view: Standing dead trees, living trees, and logging traces, approximately 14 miles NW of Mt. St. Helens, Wash., 1981 * Stream and ash eruption - from Muddy Creek mudflow, 5.5 miles SE of Mt. St. Helens, Wash., 1982 * Landscape, near Stillwater, Minnesota, 1975 * Hotel Roosevelt, Minneapolis, Mn., 1977 * Galveston, Texas, 1978 * Grain elevator, Bellefont, Kansas, 1973 * Wichita River, looking east from Scott St., Wichitaw Falls, Texas, 1982 * House with double roof, Kiowa, Colorado, 1979 * Aerial view: Trees and field near Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1981.
This set is in the collection of Wellesley College's Davis Museum, which they exhibited in 1990 under the title Edgerton, Gohlke, Papageorge, and Siskind: A Photographic Portfolio.
