NEW YORK – On Tuesday, July 19, starting at 4 pm Eastern time, Jasper52 will present an auction of Vintage Gravures, featuring a total of 113 lots. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
The sale lineup boasts a wide range of illustrious names in photography that includes Alfred Eisenstadt, Man Ray, Lisette Model, Andre Kertesz, Lucien Clergue, Lewis W. Hine, Robert Mapplethorpe, Josef Sudek, Izis Bidermanas, Kishin Shinoyama, George Platt-Lynes, Pierre Boucher, Margaret Bourke-White, Adolf Fassbender, Yuji Hayata, Lionel Fourneaux, John Everard, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jose Ortiz Echague, Masaya Nakamura, Edward Steichen, Edmund Katz, Lewis Jacobs, Julien Bryan, Richard Avedon, Philippe Halsman, Brassai, Dennis Hopper, Vaclav Jiru, Jean Gaberell and Ansel Adams.
Also represented are Frieda Horovitz, Ruth Bernhard, Mario Bucovich, Martin Munkasci, William Klein, Stanley R. Jordan, Robert Doisneau, Jean Dieuzaide, Yousuf Karsh, Willy Zielke, Ralph Gibson, Koichi Uchimura, Clarence H. White, Rudolf Balogh, Roger Schall, Charles E. Kerlee, Henry Eades, Vittorio Ronconi, Kazuhiro Shibata, Gustave Seiden, Gertrude Fehr, Maurice Pillard Verneuil, Franz Schensky, Hisao E. Kimura, James Doolittle, Mirella Ricciardi, Lucien Lorelle, R. M. Clermont, Dr. Paul Wolff, Dorothea Lange, Kikuo Sato, Herbert List, Cecil Beaton, Angus McBean and Hans Windisch.
Lewis W. Hine’s (American, 1874-1940) contribution to the July 19 auction is an image from his famous series on the Construction of the Empire State Building, bearing that very title. The black-and-white sheet-fed gravure, which was printed in Great Britain in the 1970s, shows a preternaturally calm man hanging from a hook and framed by a skyscraper skeleton. It is estimated at $150-$450.
Also of note is Brassai’s (Hungarian and French, 1899-1984) 1932 image Avenue de L’Observatoire (Observatory Avenue), offered as a sheet-fed gravure printed in Switzerland in the 1960s. The brooding night scene, showing a silhouetted figure among bare trees, is estimated at $150-$200.
The final highlight belongs to Alfred Eisenstadt (German and American, 1898-1995): A portrait of the Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Eisenstadt captures the journalist in an interesting attitude; the look on his face is somewhere between questioning and faintly disapproving. The sheet-fed gravure was printed in Switzerland in the 1960s and carries an estimate of $150-$250.
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