Provenance
Collection of the artist
A descendent of the artist
Collection of Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes, Paris
Sotheby's, Paris, La Photographie III: Collection Marie-Thérèse et André Jammes, L'Oeuvre de Charles Nègre, 22 March 2002, lot 447

122

Charles Nègre

Mercure chevauchant Pégase, sculpture d'Antoine Coysevox, place de la Concorde, à Paris

1859
Albumen print.
17 1/2 x 13 7/8 in. (44.5 x 35.2 cm)
Annotated 'A. Jammes 76' in an unidentified hand in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$30,000 - 50,000

Sold for $30,000

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The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation, Part 2

New York 4 April 2017

44
Ben Glaha
Boulder Dam
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $13,750
45
Margaret Bourke-White
Helix: Panel in NBC Mural, Radio City Music Hall
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $30,000
46
Herbert Bayer
Composition with Shadows
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $11,250
47
Ansel Adams
Old Doors, Columbia Farm, Los Angeles
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $9,375
48
Alfred Stieglitz
Window: Wood, Glass, Snow
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
49
André Kertész
Boulevard des Invalides, Paris
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $15,000
50
André Kertész
Paris (man at a pissoir, Latin Quarter)
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
51
Georges Hugnet
Untitled (laundry and legs collage)
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $8,125
52
László Moholy-Nagy
Untitled (pigeons)
Estimate $70,000 - 90,000
Sold for $68,750
53
László Moholy-Nagy
Special Effect for “Things to Come”
Estimate $80,000 - 120,000
Sold for $143,750
54
Michael Kenna
Wind-Swept Beach, Calais, France
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $2,750
55
Albert Renger-Patzsch
Bridge over the Möhne Reservoir, Germany
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $7,500
56
Albert Renger-Patzsch
Untitled (Gebirgneudorf)
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $23,750
57
Werner Mantz
Heerlen, Netherlands
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
58
Bill Brandt
East Sussex Coast
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $32,500
59
Constantin Brancusi
(Bois) Group Mobile (L’Enfant au monde)
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
Sold for $125,000
60
Imogen Cunningham
Flax
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
Sold for $30,000
61
Edward Weston
Pepper
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
Sold for $37,500
62
Tina Modotti
Untitled, Mexico City
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $43,750
63
Edward Weston
D.H. Lawrence
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $22,500
64
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Retrato de lo Eterno (Portrait of the Eternal)
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
Sold for $106,250
65
Anne Brigman
Sierran Landscape
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $6,875
66
Johan Hagemeyer
Flower Form
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
67
Doris Ulmann
Baptism
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $40,000
68
Albert Renger-Patzsch
Untitled (country road)
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $13,750
69
Werner Mantz
Weg Maastricht-Berg-Falkenburg Begin van den kleinen Rasberg (Small pine trees on the racing approach to Maastricht-Berg-Falkenburg Mountain)
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $9,375
70
Alfred Stieglitz
November Days
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $16,250
71
Karl Struss
Riverside Drive from Across the Hudson
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $15,000
72
Karl Struss
Reflections, Moonlight, Arverne, Long Island
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $16,250
73
Alfred Stieglitz
The City of Ambition
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $30,000
74
Alfred Stieglitz
Going to the Start
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
75
Alfred Stieglitz
The Hand of Man
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $22,500
76
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Chateau de Rouzat
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $5,250
77
Unknown Photographer
Wilbur Wright in Flight
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $6,250
78
Étienne-Jules Marey
Charvier. Essai au frein de Prony, 12 Kilogrm, au tour
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $32,500
79
Alvin Langdon Coburn
Self Portrait
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $93,750
80
Robert Demachy
Frederick Holland Day
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $68,750
81
Alfred Stieglitz and Juan C. Abel, editors
Camera Notes
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $27,500
82
Alfred Stieglitz
The Terminal
Estimate $60,000 - 80,000
Sold for $60,000
83
Paul Strand
Connecticut Pines, Twin Lakes, CT
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $22,500
84
Paul Strand
Driftwood, Maine
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $30,000
85
Paul Strand
Iris, Georgetown, Maine
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
Sold for $56,250
86
Heinrich Kuehn
On The Hillside (A Study Of Values)
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $7,500
87
Heinrich Kuehn
Miss Mary in Evening Costume
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $10,000
88
Edward Steichen
Steichen (The Steichen Book)
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
89
William Henry Fox Talbot or Calvert Richard Jones
The Fruit Sellers
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $43,750
90
Édouard Baldus
Groupe dans le parc du Château de la Faloise
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $25,000
91
Unknown Photographer
The Silver Merchants
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $20,000
92
Unknown Photographer
Childhood Portrait
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $2,750
93
Likely Nicolaas Henneman or possibly Antoine Claudet
The Chess Players
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $10,000
94
Louis-Rémy Robert
Portrait of Jules André
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $22,500
95
Louis-Rémy Robert
Night
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $10,000
96
Charles Marville
Rue Pirouette, vue prise de la rue Rambuteau, 1er arrondissement, Paris
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $25,000
97
Charles Marville
La Bievre (de la rue du Pont-aux-biches)
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $50,000
98
Gustave Le Gray
Mediterranean with Mount Agde
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $35,000
99
Gustave Le Gray and Auguste Mestral
Vue générale des remparts de Carcassonne, prise de l’ouest
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $18,750
100
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey
Aphrodisias, Temple de Venus
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $15,000
101
Eugène Cuvelier
Jean de Paris, Fontainebleau
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $15,000
102
John Beasley Greene
Dakkeh, Salle de Thot
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $56,250
103
James Anderson
View of Rome from the French Academy, Monte Pincio
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $32,500
104
Captain Linnaeus Tripe
The Causeway Across Vaigai River, Madura
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $25,000
105
Nevil Story Maskelyne
One-Arch Bridge, Breconshire (negative and positive)
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
106
William Henry Fox Talbot
Gates of Christchurch, Oxford
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $9,375
107
William Henry Fox Talbot
Eve
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $15,000
108
Adam Fuss
Untitled (Snake Powder)
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
109
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Ionian Sea, Santa Cesarea
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $25,000
110
Dr. Dain L. Tasker
Wide Open Lotus
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $4,750
111
Masao Yamamoto
Nakazora
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $22,500
112
Étienne Clémentel
Étang des Nymphéas à Giverny
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
113
Étienne Clémentel
Les Nymphéas dans l'Atelier
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
114
Étienne Clémentel
Monet à Giverny
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $22,500
115
Édouard Baldus
Église Saint-Étienne de Caen, derrière le mur
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $20,000
116
André Giroux
Untitled (rural scene with carts)
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $20,000
117
Berenice Abbott
James Joyce
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $11,250
118
Victor Laisné
Eugène Delacroix
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $15,000
119
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
Alexandre Dumas
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
Sold for $81,250
120
Eugène Atget
Lion, St. Cloud
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $15,000
121
Adrien Tournachon
La Fleur
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $2,375
122
Charles Nègre
Mercure chevauchant Pégase, sculpture d'Antoine Coysevox, place de la Concorde, à Paris
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $30,000
123
Benjamin Brecknell Turner
Trees (Pepperharrow Park)
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $162,500
124
Carleton Watkins
Multnomah Falls Cascade, Columbia River
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
Sold for $106,250
125
Carleton Watkins
Devils Canyon, Geysers, Looking Up
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $32,500
126
Carleton Watkins
The Passage of the Dalles, Columbia River
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $92,500
127
Unknown Photographer
Portrait of Francis E. Brownell, “Ellsworth’s Avenger,” and Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
128
Edward Sheriff Curtis
Waiting in the Forest, Cheyenne
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
129
William Bell
Perched Rock, Rocker Creek, Arizona
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $43,750
130
Jacques-Philippe Potteau
Selected Portraits of Algerian Diplomats
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
131
John Thomson
Physic Street, Canton
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $7,500
132
Désiré Charnay
Raharla, Minister to the Queen
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $32,500
133
Julia Margaret Cameron
Selected Cartes de Visite
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $12,500
134
Lewis Carroll (Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Xie (Alexandra) Kitchin as a “Dane”
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $11,875
135
Julia Margaret Cameron
Sir John Herschel
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $112,500
136
Maurice Tabard
Untitled (experimental self-portrait with shadow)
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
137
Maurice Tabard
Untitled (solarized face)
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
138
Dora Maar
Portrait of Picasso in Profile
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $15,000
139
Edward Steichen
Noël Coward for Condé Nast, New York
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
140
Umbo (Otto Umbehr)
Grock the Clown
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $11,250
141
Dora Maar
Untitled (double-exposed portrait)
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $100,000
142
James Doolittle
Marlene Dietrich
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $12,500
143
Dorothea Lange
The Yanks Are Not Coming!, California
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
144
W. Eugene Smith
Dance of the Flaming Coke, Pittsburgh
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $10,000
145
Walker Evans
Greek Revival Building, Natchez, Mississippi
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $20,000
146
Berenice Abbott
Blossom Restaurant, 103 Bowery, Manhattan
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $7,500
147
Berenice Abbott
Charles Lane, Between West and Washington Streets, Manhattan
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $3,750
148
Consuelo Kanaga
Downtown, New York
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $16,250
149
Lewis Wickes Hine
Paper Boys, Hartford, Connecticut
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $5,250
150
Weegee (Arthur Fellig)
Children (school is over)
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $6,875
151
Helen Levitt
Untitled (chalk drawing, New York City)
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $16,250
152
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Hotel court, rue de la Boétie, Paris
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $9,375
153
Shikanosuke Yagaki
Cat
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $8,125
154
Dora Maar
Gamin aux Chaussures Dépareillés
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $32,500
155
Robert Frank
Andrea on Third Ave
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
156
Elliott Erwitt
Valencia, Spain (Robert and Mary Frank)
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
157
Robert Frank
Times Square
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $30,000
158
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Easter Sunday in Harlem
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $12,500
159
Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
The Seine at Night
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
160
Berenice Abbott
Manhattan Bridge, Manhattan
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $8,750
161
Roy DeCarava
Man Coming Up Subway Stairs
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $20,000
162
Walker Evans
South Street, New York
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $16,250
163
Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
Clochard endormi à Marseille
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $11,875
164
David Goldblatt
Selected images of South Africa
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $18,750
165
Chris Killip
Girl with Hoop
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $11,250
166
Chris Killip
Untitled (two girls on curb)
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $7,500
167
Josef Koudelka
France
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $40,000
168
Josef Koudelka
Straznice
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $11,250
169
W. Eugene Smith
Thelonious Monk Rehearsing in the Loft
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $30,000
170
Roy DeCarava
George Morrow
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $10,625
171
Robert Frank
New York City
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $10,000
172
Lee Friedlander
Selected Portraits of Musicians
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $4,750
173
Erwin Blumenfeld
Black and White, Amsterdam
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $12,500
174
Gerard Petrus Fieret
Untitled
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $8,125
175
William Klein
Smoke + Veil, Paris (Vogue)
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
176
Ray K. Metzker
Philadelphia
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $12,500
177
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Untitled, (two ghosts with fireplace)
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
178
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Untitled (scream)
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $11,250
179
Frederick Sommer
Circumnavigation of the Blood
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $13,750
180
Frederick Sommer
Furies
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $12,500
181
Harry Callahan
Alley, Chicago
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $50,000
182
Lee Friedlander
New York City
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $40,000
183
Garry Winogrand
Apollo 11 Moon Shot, Cape Kennedy, Florida
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $11,250
184
Harry Callahan
Asheville, North Carolina
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $20,000
185
Arthur Siegel
Untitled (Barbara Siegel)
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $10,000
186
Arthur Siegel
Untitled (Barbara Siegel)
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
187
Robert Heinecken
Selected Images
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
188
Tomoko Sawada
ID400 (#201-300)
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $22,500
189
Shirin Neshat
Offered Eyes from Unveiling
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
190
Duane Michals
I Build a Pyramid
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $13,750
191
Dieter Appelt
Der Fleck auf dem Spiegel den der Atemhauch Schafft (The Mark on the Mirror Made by Breathing)
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $6,000
192
Peter Hujar
Susan Sontag
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $30,000
193
Peter Hujar
Cow with Straw in Its Mouth
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $16,250
194
Daidō Moriyama
Selected Images
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $13,750
195
Masahisa Fukase
Nayoro from Ravens
Estimate $15,000 - 20,000
Sold for $20,000
196
Henry Wessel, Jr.
Night Walk, Los Angeles, No. 43
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
197
Henry Wessel, Jr.
Night Walk, Los Angeles, No. 28
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $5,250
198
Todd Hido
#2604-O from House Hunting
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $8,125
199
Lewis Baltz
Columbia, South Carolina
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $22,500
200
Henry Wessel, Jr.
Santa Monica, California
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $4,750
201
Stephen Shore
U.S. 10, Post Falls, Idaho, August 25, 1974
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $40,000
202
Jim Goldberg
Selected Images from Raised by Wolves
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $7,500
203
Larry Clark
Tulsa
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
204
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao
LIRR, Hunters Point from Habitat 7
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $6,875
205
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao
5 Pointz, Long Island City from Habitat 7
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $6,875
206
Loretta Lux
Maria 1 and Maria 2
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $10,000
207
Roni Horn
Untitled #1
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $20,000
208
Fred Tomaselli
Portrait of Gregory from Chemical Celestial Portraits
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $25,000
209
Fred Tomaselli
Portrait of Joe from Chemical Celestial Portraits
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $20,000
210
Richard Misrach
Araby, Arizona, 3.24.95, 7:27 pm
Estimate $18,000 - 22,000
Sold for $22,500
211
Louise Lawler
Not Yet Titled
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $22,500
212
Vik Muniz
Still Life after Morandi from Pictures of Magazines
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $30,000
213
James Welling
Untitled #0696 (Glass House)
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $18,750
214
Susan Derges
The River Taw (Hazel), June 16
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $12,500
215
Thomas Struth
Paradise 8 (Blumfield Track), Daintree, Australia
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
Sold for $40,000
216
Naoya Hatakeyama
Untitled (Tokyo)
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $65,000
217
Hiro
Apollo 11, 9:32 AM, 7-16-69, Maiden Voyage to the Moon
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $23,750
218
Hiro
Popping Pills, New York City, May 4
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $9,375
219
Evelyn Hofer
Little Italy, Mulberry Street, New York
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $5,000
220
Eikoh Hosoe
Barakei Shinshuban – Ordeal by Roses Re-Edited
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
221
Wang Qingsong
Past, Present and Future
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
222
Dinh Q. Lê
Untitled #4
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $21,250
223
Marco Breuer
Untitled (C-434)
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $8,125
224
Gregory Crewdson
Natural Wonder
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $4,375
225
Gregory Crewdson
Natural Wonder
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $4,750
226
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Heema
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $10,000
227
Robbert Flick
Along Cabrillo Boulevard
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $5,000
228
John Divola
Selected Images from Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $21,250

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Mercure chevauchant Pégase, sculpture d'Antoine Coysevox, place de la Concorde, à Paris

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