Purchased from the photographer, 1955
Photographs by Brassaï, The Art Institute of Chicago, 15 November 1954- 1 January 1955
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brassaï: The Eye of Paris, pl. 128
Brassaï made this print specifically for his one-person exhibition at the Art Institute in 1954-1955.
circa 1945Gelatin silver print, printed no later than 1955.18 7/8 x 15 1/2 in. (47.9 x 39.4 cm)'The Art Institute of Chicago' collection label affixed to the reverse of the mount.
Estimate$3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $6,250
New York Auction 1 October
1
Bill Brandt
Joan Miró
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $8,125
2
Arnold Newman
Max Ernst
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $5,250
3
Marc Chagall
Sold for $6,875
4
Gertrude Käsebier
Auguste Rodin
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
5
Rodin's Garden
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
6
Two ladies in formal wedding dress
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
7
Julia Margaret Cameron
My Favourite Picture of all my works, My niece Julia (Jackson)
Sold for $11,250
8
Selected Images
Estimate $15,000 - 20,000
9
Florence (Standing woman, long dress)
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
10
Alfred Stieglitz
Selected Lantern Slides
11
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
12
Lewis Wickes Hine
Sadie, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina
Estimate $60,000 - 80,000
Sold for $75,000
13
Arnold Genthe
Sold for $5,000
14
Berenice Abbott
New York at Night
Sold for $16,250
15
Marion Post Wolcott
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
16
Helen Levitt
New York
Sold for $4,000
17
Heyman's Butcher Shop, New York
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
18
Hoboken Ferry Terminal, Barclay Street, New York
19
Walker Evans
Sidewalk and Shopfront, New Orleans
Estimate $18,000 - 22,000
Sold for $37,500
20
Street Scene, Marion, Alabama, Summer
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
21
James Van Der Zee
Portrait of a Harlem Preacher, 'Daddy Grace' and Congregation, 1938; Untitled (Young black woman with studio background)
22
Untitled (Subway Portrait), New York
Sold for $40,000
23
Sold for $13,750
24
Michael Disfarmer
Group portrait
25
Sold for $6,000
26
Selected Images of Chicago
27
Husband, wife, and child
28
The Art Institute of Chicago
Complete Exhibition Publications
Sold for $2,750
29
Lewis Baltz
The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California
30
Lee Friedlander
The American Monument
31
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
La Buena Fama Durmiendo (Good Reputation, Sleeping)
Sold for $17,500
32
Parábola Óptica (Optic Parable), Mexico
33
Tentaciones En Casa De Antonio (Temptations at Antonio’s house)
Estimate $3,000 - 4,000
34
Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
Robe à volants pour Feria à Seville
35
Exotic Garden in Monaco
36
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Córdoba, Spain
Estimate $80,000 - 120,000
Sold for $161,000
37
André Kertész
Paris, Morning Bread, Montparnasse
Sold for $8,750
38
Pont Neuf, Paris
39
Untitled
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
40
Near the Medici Fountain, Paris
Sold for $3,000
41
Untitled (Distortion #167)
Estimate $30,000 - 40,000
Sold for $47,500
42
Selected Distortions
Sold for $23,750
43
East Sussex Coast
Sold for $7,500
44
Nathan Lerner
45
Sold for $20,000
46
Tin Building, Moundville, Alabama, Summer
47
Roadside Barn, Monongalia County, West Virginia, June
48
Aaron Siskind
St. Louis 9
Sold for $27,500
49
Gothic Gate Cottage Near Poughkeepsie, New York
50
A Miner's Home, Vicinity Morgantown, West Virginia, July
51
Edward Weston
Succulents
Sold for $3,750
52
Minor White
Sold for $5,625
53
Johan Hagemeyer
54
Untitled (San Francisco scene with church steeple)
55
Paul Caponigro
Two Leaves
56
Untitled (Flower)
57
Ruth-Marion Baruch
Selected Images of California
Sold for $4,375
58
Carleton Watkins
59
Sold for $11,875
60
Imogen Cunningham
Two Callas
61
Ansel Adams
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $93,750
62
Driftwood Stump, Crescent Beach
63
Dunes, Oceano
64
Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park
Sold for $46,250
65
66
Nude on Sand, Oceano
67
Estimate $70,000 - 90,000
Sold for $112,500
68
69
Nude
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
70
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Untitled (Guy Mendes)
71
72
Fourth of July #1
73
74
75
Ernst Haas
Positano Priest
Sold for $2,500
76
W. Eugene Smith
Spanish Village
77
Untitled from As From My Window I Sometimes Glance
Sold for $10,000
78
79
Irving Penn
Mermaid Dress (Rochas), Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn
80
John Szarkowski
Selected Images from The Idea of Louis Sullivan
Sold for $13,125
81
82
Wynn Bullock
Torso in Window
83
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
84
85
SC 12, Chicago
86
Chicago
87
Harry Callahan
Dearborn Street, Chicago
88
89
Photographs
Estimate $1,200 - 1,800
90
Lou Stoumen
Forty Years: Lou Stoumen
91
Wisconsin
92
93
Garry Winogrand
Sold for $10,625
94
Robert Frank
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $30,000
95
Apollo II Moon Shot, Cape Kennedy, Florida
Sold for $25,000
96
Dennis Stock
97
En Route from New York to Washington, Club Car
98
99
Harold Eugene Edgerton
Circus trapeze acts
100
Margaret Bourke-White
Migrating Snow Geese
101
Arthur Siegel
102
Uruapan, Mexico
103
Gloucester 25
104
Natural Forms, Granite Dells, Arizona
105
Frederick Sommer
Paracelsus
Sold for $18,750
106
Eliot Porter
107
Seeing the Unseen
108
109
110
Nude, East Sussex Coast
111
London
112
Richard Avedon
Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent, Los Angeles, California, June 14
Sold for $87,500
113
Helmut Newton
Domestic Nude XI, Los Angeles
114
Robert Heinecken
Cliché Vary/Lesbianism
Sold for $149,000
115
Various Artists
Art Institute of Chicago Portfolio
116
Socio/Fashion Lingerie
117
Untitled Newswoman: Diane Sawyer