Sale 2466 - Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks, February 15, 2018

30 c KARL STRUSS (1886-1981) The Landing Place, Villa Carlotta, Lake Como, Italy. Platinum print, the image measuring 6 3 / 8 x9 3 / 8 inches (16.2x23.8 cm.), with Struss’ later signature, in pencil, and a partial title, the notation Camera Work, and numeric notations, also in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1909 [6,000/9,000] 30 31 c FRANCIS ORVILLE LIBBY (1883-1961) Group of 10 fascinating Pictorialist landscapes and seascapes of New England. Multiple gum bichromate prints, the images measuring 13 1 / 4 x7 1 / 4 to 16x13 inches (33.7x18.4 to 40.6x33 cm.), the mounts 18x15 1 / 2 to 25x19 3 / 4 inches (45.7x39.4 to 63.5x50.2 cm.), each with Libby’s signature, on print recto or mount recto or verso, 9 with a title, several with a date and F.R.P.S., in ink, or the P.P.P. debossed hand stamp, on recto; some with Libby’s original prices and exhibition labels associated with Pictorialist salons on mounts verso; one with his printing notations. 1916-22 [3,000/4,500] From the Estate of Francis Orville Libby; to the Portland Camera Club. A Maine-based artist, Libby was a member of the Portland Photo Pictorialists [P.P.P.] and was a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. 31