Altar Before Rotunda, by Francis Bruguière
13 3/8 x 10 5/8- inch gelatin silver print, hand colored, on the original decorative 22 x 13 3/4- inch double mat, signed and dated on the print and again on the mount beneath the print. This is in the rotunda of the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts at the time of the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition, printed and colored a year or so later. A masterpiece of evocative pictorialist photography, using the architectural features as a basis for something mysterious, brought out by the coloring (each print colored by hand) and lighting. This is a great example of this print.
$1750
Albert Schweitzer with a leper
JUGGLER AND HIS SHADOW
WOMEN WITH WATER JARS ON THEIR HEADS, GUATAMALA.
“Apple Blossoms, 1933” by Holt
“85. Sept Tours, Istanbul, Turkey” by Sebah and Joaillier
Pipe smoking masons
JEAN HARLOWE BY CLARENCE SINCLAIR BULL
FILM STILL BY WILLIAM MORTENSEN
10 x 8- inch toned gelatin silver print. This is a film still by William Mortensen from Cecil B. DeMille’s “massive biblical production.” The scene shows Victor Varconi and Majal Coleman as Pilate and his wife. Has Mortensen’s stamp on the verso. It is interesting as an example of his studio work before the wild pictorialist photographs he is known for. The melodramatic faces of the scene anticipate some aspects of his later work.
$100 – postage paid within US, $10 to Canada
Frank Sinatra, six prints
Japanese funeral arrangement by Brett Weston
13 3/4 x 10- inch gelatin silver print, signed on the mount recto. This was selected and printed by Weston for the 1995 “Vogue of the Eye” exhibition. The characters are formed from some natural objects. Japanese employs some Chinese characters. The top two represent the name of the family of the deceased. In excellent condition.
$2200
Scene framed by building under construction, by Brett Weston
10 5/8 x 13 1/4- inch gelatin silver print, signed on the mount recto. This was selected and printed by Weston for the 1995 “Vogue of the Eye” exhibitions. The scene is framed by the architectural elements of the house being built across the unpaved street. This reminds me of the 1937 Edward Weston photograph “False-Front House, Albion California”.
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$3000