Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 82

The Fall Manuscript, Collectibles, Stamp and Space Memorabilia Auction

Photography

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 1119		Ansel Adams. Kaweah Peaks From Copper Pass. Print size: 5 3/4"x 7 3/4". Mount size: 7 3/4"x 10". Unsigned. Vintage gelatin silver print made from a glass negative (4-GP-42), possibly on a trip with Joeseph LeConte Jr. The negative number suggests this early date, although the print was discovered with a group of photographs from a 1927 Sierra Club outing. It is probable that Adams included this image with the group because it was a magnificent view of an area visited on that trip. This would have been a sample print Ansel made from which to generate orders from club members. Matted to 13"x15". With COA from The Ansel Adams Gallery. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,680
Lot 1120		Ansel Adams. Milestone Mountain and Canyon. Print size: 5 3/4" x7 3/4". Unsigned. Vintage gelatin silver print made from a glass plate negative (2-GP-111) taken on a Sierra Club outing into the Kern-Kaweah / Mt. Whitney region of the Sierra Nevada in the summer of 1927. The outing announcement eloquently describes the Milestone region with a quotation from Clarence King, USGS: ' its broken sky line, battlemented and adorned with innumerable rough-hewn spires and pinnacles." This print is probably a sample print Ansel made from which to generate orders from club members. Matted to 13"x15". With COA from The Ansel Adams Gallery. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,560
Lot 1121		Ansel Adams. North From Elizabeth Pass. Print size: 5 3/4"x 7 3/4". Mount size: 7 3/4"x 10". Unsigned. Gelatin silver print made from a glass plate negative taken on a Sierra Club outing into the Kern-Kaweah/ Mt. Whitney region of the Sierra Nevada in the summer of 1927. This print was discovered with a group of photographs verifiably made on this trip, although this particular image may have been made as early as 1925. This is probably a sample print Ansel made from which to generate orders from club members who were on the outing. Matted to 13"x15". With COA from The Ansel Adams Gallery. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,560
Lot 1122		Ansel Adams. View of Kern Canyon. Print size: 5 3/4"x 7 3/4". Mount size: 7 3/4"x 10". Unsigned. Vintage gelatin silver print made from a glass plate negative (2-GP-107) taken on a Sierra Club outing into the Kern-Kaweah/Mt. Whitney region of the Sierra Nevada in the Summer of 1927. The outing description of the Canyon is enticing; "Its towering cliffs and sculptured walls are strikingly Yosemite-like, and the main stream flows through a series of exquisite lakes and meadows from its source in a mighty cliff-encircled amphitheater amid savage peaks." This is probably a sample print made from which to generate orders from club members who were on the outing. Matted to 13" x 15". With COA from The Ansel Adams Gallery. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,560
Lot 1123		Ansel Adams. West From Elizabeth Pass. Print size: 5 3/4"x 7 3/4". Mount size: 8"x10" Unsigned. Vintage gelatin silver print made from a glass plate negtive taken on a Sierra Club outing into the Kern-Kaweah / Mt. Whitney region of the Sierra Nevada in the Summrt of 1927. This print was discovered with a group of photographs verrfiably made on this trip, although this particular image may have been made as early as 1925. This is probably a sample print Ansel made from which to generate orders from club members who were on the outing. Matted to 13"x15". With COA from The Ansel Adams Gallery. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,560
Lot 1124		Rosenberg, Arnold. Marcel Duchamp. Collection of 32 negatives taken in December 1958 at Marcel Duchamp's 14th Street Studio in New York City, including twelve negatives for the famous photos of Duchamp playing chess on a glass table. Twenty other negatives show Duchamp talking, gesturing, smoking his pipe, etc. Rosenberg (1931 -) is best known for these photographs of Duchamp playing chess. Rosenberg had contacted Duchamp and told him of his desire to do a portfolio of photographs of Duchamp and his work. Duchamp agreed and suggested that Rosenberg set up a background which would simulate a nude descending a staircase (see following lot--after Duchamp's famous 1912 painting, "Nu descendant un escalier n° 2"). While waiting for an artist's model to arrive, Rosenberg and Duchamp had time to get better acquainted and Rosenberg took a number of close-up shots of Duchamp before setting up for the "staircase" photo. After a long day of shooting the "staircase" photo, Duchamp, who was a chess aficionado, suggested that Rosenberg join him in a game. We don't know who won the chess game but Rosenberg shot these photos from underneath the glass table as Duchamp moved the chess pieces about and history was made. ALL RIGHTS OF REPRODUCTION ARE INCLUDED WITH THE PURCHASE OF THIS LOT. Arnold T. Rosenberg is an American-born photographer who began his career in the late 1950s as an assistant to Irving Penn. In 1961, he opened his studio in New York City. His photographs have been published widely in national and international magazines and he was a contributing photographer for the New York Times, Opera News and New York Magazine. His photographs appear in numerous cookbooks for Craig Claiborne & Pierre Franey. Photographs of the architect Marcel Breuer have been on exhibit at the Vitra Museum in Germany. In 1979, Rosenberg was among the first American photographers invited to travel to The Peoples Republic of China as part of a cultural exchange between the two countries. On a commission from Philippe de Montebello, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rosenberg photographed a Ming Dynasty courtyard in Suzhou which became the prototype on permanent exhibit at the Met. While in Beijing he was asked to lecture at Beijing University. These images have been exhibited in Shanghai. Mr. Rosenberg's photographs are found in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in N.Y. and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The photographs taken at Marcel Duchamp's studio in 1958 are now part of the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. Estimated Value $20,000-UP. Arnold Rosenberg. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 1125		Rosenberg, Arnold. Nude Descending a Staircase. 20 x 16", after Marcel Duchamp's famous 1912 painting, "Nu descendant un escalier n° 2" (Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2). Photographer Arnold Rosenberg signed in black ink at lower right (slight ink brushing to "Rosenberg"). Rosenberg had contacted Duchamp and told him of his desire to do a portfolio of photographs of Duchamp and his work. Duchamp agreed and suggested that Rosenberg set up a background which would simulate a nude descending a staircase. Rosenberg agreed and arranged for an artist's model to meet him at the studio. To obtain the proper effect, Rosenberg arranged a series of platforms which the model would descend. He used a Hasselblad camera with an open shutter and multiple flash in order to simulate movement. Examples of Rosenberg's photographs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Estimated Value $4,000 - 6,000. Arnold Rosenberg. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,800