Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist, 2006
Exhibited
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: Habitat 7, Queens Museum of Art, 2006
Catalogue Essay
The light boxes offered in this lot and the lot 204 were originally produced for Jeff Liao's solo exhibition at the Queens Museum in 2006. As of this writing, they are the only examples of these images produced in this format.

205

Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao

5 Pointz, Long Island City from Habitat 7

2004
Kodak Duraclear film transparency in fluorescent lightbox.
Overall 40 x 96 x 6 1/2 in. (101.6 x 243.8 x 16.5 cm)
Signed on a label accompanying the work.

Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000

Sold for $6,875

Contact Specialist
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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

The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy...

New York 4 April 2017

Provenance

Exhibited

Catalogue Essay

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Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao

5 Pointz, Long Island City from Habitat 7

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