Walton Ford - Evening & Day Editions New York Wednesday, October 17, 2018 | Phillips
  • Literature

    Benedikt Taschen pp 100, 101, 131, 152, 153 and 227-8

  • Catalogue Essay

    In my case, I wanted to take the language of the nineteenth-century natural-history illustrators and use it in a way they would never have imagined—to plumb our own collective ways of thinking about the natural world and these beings we share the planet with. Walton Ford "Man and Beast", New Yorker, January 26, 2009

Property from a Private American Collection

50

Swadeshi-cide, 1998; La Historia Me Absolvera, 1999; Benjamin's Emblem, 2000; Tale of Johnny Nutkin, 2001; Compromised, 2003; and Visitation, 2004

The complete series of six etchings in colors, on Somerset Satin paper, with full margins.
all I. 35 3/4 x 23 7/8 in. (90.8 x 60.6 cm)
all S. 44 x 30 1/2 in. (111.8 x 77.5 cm)

All signed, dated and numbered 'A.P. 12' in pencil (one of 12 artist's proofs, the edition was 50), published by Blue Heron Press, New York, all framed.

Estimate
$80,000 - 120,000 

Sold for $87,500

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 17 October 2018