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RALPH STEINER (1899-1986)
Ten Photographs from the Twenties and Thirties & One From the Seventies.
A portfolio with 9 (of 11)
photographs. Silver prints, the images measuring 4
1
/
2
x3
1
/
2
to 9
1
/
2
x7
1
/
2
inches (11.4x8.9 to 24.1x19.1
cm.), and the reverse, 7 with Steiner’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and 2 tipped into mats
with Steiner’s signature and dates, in pencil, on print verso. Folio-sized black-stamped clamshell
box; the colophon with the edition notation 11 and Steiner’s initials, in ink; contents loose as issued.
1920s-30s, and 1970s; printed 1977
[3,000/4,500]
From the Estate of Lee Witkin; by descent to the Present Owner.
Typewriter as Design * Lollipop * Always—Camel Cigarettes * Ford * Nehi Sign * Row of Albany Houses
* Ham and Eggs * The Coconut Factory * After the Rehearsal.
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RUTH BERNHARD (1905-2006)
Straws.
Silver print, the image measuring
13
5
/
8
x10
5
/
8
inches (34.6x27 cm.), the mount
19
5
/
8
x15
1
/
2
inches (49.8x39.4 cm.), with
Bernhard’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto,
and her signature, title, and date, in pencil, and
her hand stamp, on mount verso. 1930; printed
circa 1975
[2,500/3,500]
From the Photographer; to the Neikrug
Gallery, NewYork, NewYork; to Frances and
DonaldWerner, NewYork, circa 1975.
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