Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

172 c W. EUGENE SMITH (1918-1978) The Spinner, Spanish Village. Silver print, the image measuring 16 1 / 2 x11 1 / 4 inches (41.9x29.8 cm.), with Smith’s signature, with a stylus, on recto, and with two hand stamps and notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1951 [6,000/9,000] Deaccessioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York; to a Private American Collector. Smith, Master of the Photographic Essay: W. Eugene Smith (Aperture), cover & p. 76. Mora, W. Eugene Smith Photographs 1934-1975 (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.), back cover, p. 115. Maddow, Let Truth Be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith: His Life and Photographs (Aperture), p. 159. W. Eugene Smith (Aperture), np. Kirstein, W. Eugene Smith: His Photographs and Notes (Aperture), np. Stephenson, W. Eugene Smith 55 , p. 53.