Lot 49
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 1/2x3 1/2 to 9 1/2x7 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
Estimate $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.
