Swann Galleries in New York opened the auction season with their February 26th sale.
The sale total was $1,005,765 with Buyer’s Premium (or a Hammer total of $836,300).
 Estimate for sale as a whole:  $926,500 – $1,360,000
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138 lots were offered and 104 sold (75% sell-through rate by lot).

Daile Kaplan, Vice President and Director of Photographs & Photobooks at Swann, said, “ The success of our sale reflects the global reach of the photography market. Asian collectors focused on rare 19th century images, which realized great prices, while American and European buyers cast a wide net, acquiring iconic images, rare albums and important portfolios.

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Among the top lots are (Prices with buyer’s premium):
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Lot 22, Edward S. Curtis, The North American Indian, Portfolio #1, with 39 photogravures, 1907. $78,000
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Lot 33 André Kertész, Distortion #128, silver print, 1931-33. $60,000
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Lot 8 78 carte-de-visite portraits of Chinese subjects by various photographers including John Thomson, 1860s-70s. $60,000
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Lot 9 Group of 14 photographs of China by Thomas Child and Felice Beato, 1875-76. $28,800
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Lot 46 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Trafalgar Square on the Day of the Coronation of King George VI, London, silver print, 1937, printed late 1950s, inscribed to a colleague at Magnum. $24,000
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Lot 112 Bert Stern, The Last Sitting portfolio, with 10 chromogenic prints of Marilyn Monroe, 1962. $22,800
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Lot 11 Album of 38 photographs of Korean subjects, 1899. $20,400 C
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Lot 137 Joel Sternfeld, McLean, Virginia, December 4, 1978, dye-transfer print, 1978, printed 1982. $19,200
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Lot 135 Robert Parke Harrison, Listening to the Earth, complete set of 10 platinum prints, 2004. $18,000
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Lot 107 Cartier-Bresson, Alberto Giacometti at La Galerie Maeght, Paris, France, silver print, 1961, printed late 1980s. $18,000
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Lot 82 Fred Kovert, binder containing 35 male physique photographs, silver prints, late 1940s. $18,000
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Lot 77 W. Eugene Smith, Walk to Paradise Garden, ferrotyped silver print, 1946, printed 1972. $16,800
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Lot 35 Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp’s “A Regarder d’Un Oeil, De Prés Pendant Presque Une Heure,” carte-postale, 1920. $16,800
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Lot 97 Alfred Eisenstaedt, Children at a Puppet Theatre, Paris, silver print, 1963, printed late 1990s. $15,600
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Lot 111 Brassaï, Transmutations, complete portfolio with 12 cliché verre photographs, silver prints, 1967. $15,600
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Lot 28 Alfred Stieglitz, editor, 291, Numbers 1-12, New York, March 1915-February 1916. $14,400

Gilles Decamps

Swann Galleries
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
USA