These photographs were available for bidding at our Benefit Auction in October 2014.
Ruth Orkin: Man in Rain
1952, posthumous silver print, an embossed artist's blind stamp recto, and signed and titled verso by Mary Engel, the artist's daughter and the director of the Ruth Orkin Photo Archive
Image size: 14"x11"
($600–$1,200)
Wendy Paton: Le Louvre
From the series Keep It Moving
2010, archival pigment print from original film transparency, #2/25, signed verso
Image size: 17.25”x26.25"
Sheet size: 24”x32.25”
($700–$1,400)
2012 solo exhibition National Arts Club, NYC; 2010 solo exhibition Artsource International, NYC
H. G. Peabody: Four Tunnels, Fraser Canyon (Canada)
c. 1890s, silver print on original mount, name and title in negative, photographer's elaborate imprint on mount verso
Image size: 7.25"x9.25"
Sheet size: 7.25"x9.25"
($200–$400)
Henry Greenwood Peabody (1855-1951), photographer, lecturer, and publisher of educational slides and films, enjoyed a remarkable career spanning nearly sixty years. Peabody produced thousands of photographs, slides, and films documenting the American landscape, worked in virtually every photographic process, delivered lectures describing the scenery that he so lovingly photographed, and published books that visually described the landscapes and scenery in which he specialized.
Jeannie Pearce: Heron Wings
2010/2014, archival pigment print, signed recto
Image size: 13"x13"
Sheet size: 20"x20"
($400–$700) — Minimum bid: $250
Stephen Perloff: The Gaze, Philadelphia
November 1973/2014, archival pigment print, signed, titled, dated, and numbered verso
Image size: 12"x18"
Sheet size: 13"x19"
($400–$800)
Mark Perrott: Welcome Home
2005/2009, silver print, signed verso, with the book, E Block
Image size: 12"x12"
($700–$1,400) — Minimum bid: $350
W.B. Post: Landscape
1897, warm toned matte silver gelatin print, on original mount, signed on mount recto
Image size: 7.375"x9.25"
Sheet size: 10"x12"
($2,500–$3,500) — Minimum bid: $1,800
Ladislav Postupa: Intruiguing / Dialog
1996, two vintage silver prints
Image size: (Courtesy the Tartt Gallery)
($800–$1,200) — Minimum bid: $400
Born in Náchod, Czechoslovakia on September 21, 1929, Ladislav Postupa went to school in Liberec.
Postupa was one of the heirs to the tradition of Czech Surrealistic photography. His fanciful interpretations of ordinary settings draw on a penetrating surreal perception and a rich imagination. He also used technological innovation with some skill in photography and graphics design, especially as it applied to large-scale architectural installations of photographs.
Postupa started to photograph in his twenties, but for a long time it remained just a hobby for him. Around 1959 he began to concentrate on photography in a more serious way. Six years later he became an official member of the artists' organization.
During the 1960s his work came to be better known publicly, when his photographs were shown in important exhibitions on Surrealism and Photography in Brno in 1966.
In 1967, his monograph was published, and he started to work as a professional photographer, opening a photo studio in Liberec. By the beginning of the 1970s he started to paid most of his attention to the applications of photography in architecture and furniture design, which brought him much more to the field of applied arts. His recent work is much closer to graphics than to photography.
Ladislav Postupa belongs to the generation of Czech photographers, who absorbed Surrealism and tried to duplicate and renovate it. As he admits, his work is close to Vilém Reichmann, the giant of post-surrealistic Czech photography. Postupa was also looking for uncertainty within the real world.
Ladislav Postupa: Untitled (leaf)
1996, vintage silver print
Image size: (Courtesy the Tartt Gallery)
($400–$600) — Minimum bid: $200
Born in Náchod, Czechoslovakia on September 21, 1929, Ladislav Postupa went to school in Liberec.
Postupa was one of the heirs to the tradition of Czech Surrealistic photography. His fanciful interpretations of ordinary settings draw on a penetrating surreal perception and a rich imagination. He also used technological innovation with some skill in photography and graphics design, especially as it applied to large-scale architectural installations of photographs.
Postupa started to photograph in his twenties, but for a long time it remained just a hobby for him. Around 1959 he began to concentrate on photography in a more serious way. Six years later he became an official member of the artists' organization.
During the 1960s his work came to be better known publicly, when his photographs were shown in important exhibitions on Surrealism and Photography in Brno in 1966.
In 1967, his monograph was published, and he started to work as a professional photographer, opening a photo studio in Liberec. By the beginning of the 1970s he started to paid most of his attention to the applications of photography in architecture and furniture design, which brought him much more to the field of applied arts. His recent work is much closer to graphics than to photography.
Ladislav Postupa belongs to the generation of Czech photographers, who absorbed Surrealism and tried to duplicate and renovate it. As he admits, his work is close to Vilém Reichmann, the giant of post-surrealistic Czech photography. Postupa was also looking for uncertainty within the real world.
Amie Potsic: Made In China: Human Rights Violations
2008, archival pigment print, signed verso
Image size: 9"x19.5"
Sheet size: 9"x19.5"
($350–$700) — Minimum bid: $200
This piece has been exhibited at The Print Center, Ven and Vaida Gallery, and Bluestone Fine Art Gallery in Philadelphia
John Priola: Crystal Ball [Dish]
1994, silver print, signed, dated, and copyright stamp verso
Image size: 16.75"x13.75"
Sheet size: 16.75"x13.75"
($2,000–$3,000) — Minimum bid: $1,000
Phillips April 2009, lot 87
John Reef: Scottish Highlands 2510, Deep Freeze Mountain Range
2013, archival pigment print, signed verso
Image size: 6.5” x 8”
Sheet size: 9"x12"
($150–$300)
John Reef: Scottish Highlands 2745, Northern Highlands
2013, archival pigment print, signed verso
Image size: 6.5” x 8”
Sheet size: 9"x12"
($150–$300)
John Reef: Scottish Highlands 3202, Loch Earn, Central Highlands (Sculpture by Rob Mulholland)
2013, archival pigment print, signed verso
Image size: 6.5” x 8”
Sheet size: 9"x12"
($150–$300)
Herb Ritts: Bruce Springsteen — Detail II, New York 1992
1992, silver print, 2/25, lifetime print, Herb Ritts Foundation stamp & Mark McKenna Foundation Chairman signature verso
Image size: 12"x10"
Sheet size: 14"x11"
($1,200–$2,400)
Mel Roberts: Rich, Indio
c. 1963/2000, chromogenic print, embossed recto, stamped verso
Image size: 7.375"x7.3125"
($500–$1,000) — Minimum bid: $200
Aleksandr Rodchenko: Actor and Producer Vitaly Zhemchuzkny
1924/1997, silver print, portfolio print with label on print verso
Image size: 9.5"x7.375"
($500–$1,000)
Emile Rombaut: Malines (or Mechelen), Belgium
1930s, bromoil transfer, on original mount.
Signed on recto of photograph in margin
Image size: 10.875"x12.5"
Sheet size: 11.25"x12.875"
($1,000–$1,500)
A large and stunningly beautiful print.
Stuart Rome: The Owl and the Pussycat, Mendocino, from the series, "In the Land of the Lotus Eaters"
2013/2014, archival pigment print, signed verso
Image size: 15"x15"
($600–$1,200) — Minimum bid: $300
Harold Ross: Shell Studies #1
2012, archival pigment print, signed recto
Image size: 14"x14"
Sheet size: 17"x18"
($400–$700) — Minimum bid: $350
Gallery 50 Cont. Art "The First State", 2012, Malvern Retreat Art Show, 2012, Chester County Art Association Invitational Show, 2013