International & Australian PHOTOGRAPHY
20th Century Photography Collectors' List 119 2006

35 Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984)
Half Dome, Merced River, Winter, Yosemite Valley, c1938. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed in pencil on backing below image, 36.7 x 49cm. Minor repaired tears to original backing.
Rare. Beautifully toned vintage print of a famous landmark in Yosemite, which was one of Adam's favourite sites.
 $68,800
36 Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984)
Mt Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Owens Valley, California, 1944/1978. Silver gelatin photograph, signed in pencil on backing below image, title and date in photographer's stamp verso, 35.4 x 47.8cm. Laid down on original backing.
Stamp reads "… by Ansel Adams. Route I, Box 181, Carmel, CA 93923 …"
 $38,950
37 Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984)
Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, 1960/later printing. Silver gelatin photograph, authentication stamp initialled in ink by Alan Ross, the printer, verso, 24.1 x 18cm. Laid down on original presentation backing.
Stamped text reads "Special Edition Photographs of Yosemite by Ansel Adams. Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California. Printed by Alan Ross from Ansel Adams' original negative under his supervision. Sold only through The Ansel Adams Gallery. Yosemite National Park, California."
 $3,800
38 Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984)
Unicorn Peak and Thunderclouds, Yosemite National Park, California, 1970/later printing. Silver gelatin photograph, authentication stamp initialled in ink by Alan Ross, the printer, verso, 24.2 x 18.6cm. Laid down on original presentation backing.
Stamped text reads "Special Edition Photographs of Yosemite by Ansel Adams. Unicorn Peak and Thunderclouds, Yosemite National Park, California. Printed by Alan Ross from Ansel Adams' original negative under his supervision. Sold only through The Ansel Adams Gallery. Yosemite National Park, California.
 $3,800
39 Sid Avery (American, 1918-2002)
Rock Hudson Speaking on the Telephone, 1952/1990s. Silver gelatin photograph, titled, annotated and signed in pencil, photographer's copyright stamp with negative number "6721" and editioned 11/70 verso, 47.1x36.9cm.
Annotation reads "Taken 1952 for The Saturday Evening Post."
$4,400
40 Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980)
Marlene Dietrich, 1935/1998. Silver gelatin photograph, title, printing and image dates in ink in Sotheby's estate stamp verso, 38 x 28.3cm. Laid down on presentation board.
 $4,400
41 Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980)
Audrey Hepburn, 1954/c1998. Silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated and annotated "Posthumous print, estate of Cecil Beaton" in pencil by an unknown hand verso, 43 x 38.2cm.
 $5,500
42 Ruth Bernhard (American, b.1905)
Classic Torso, 1952/later printing. Selenium toned silver gelatin photograph, signed in pencil on backing below image, titled, dated and signed in pencil with photographer's copyright stamp verso, 34.4 x 26.7cm.
 $14,500
43 Ruth Bernhard (American, b.1905)
Perspective II, 1967/later printing. Selenium toned silver gelatin photograph, signed in pencil on backing below image, titled, dated and signed in pencil with photographer's copyright stamp verso, 18.5 x 34.1cm.
 $14,500
44 Cecil W Bostock (1884-1939)
Lupins, c1917. Silver gelatin photograph, titled and signed in pencil on backing below image, 30.6 x 38.3cm (irregular). Laid down on original backing with old stains. JLG3400
Bostock took on Max Dupain as an apprentice in 1930. Prov: Estate of Max Dupain.
 $4,4300
45 Cecil W Bostock (1884-1939)
[Dockside, Penzance], c1919. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, 68.3 x 51.4cm. Repaired tears to edges affecting image, surface scratches, laid down on acid-free tissue.
One of Bostock's largest photographs. Provenance: Bostock studio sale.
 $3,300
46 Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904-1971)
Pipe Organ Assembly, 1931. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed in pencil on backing below image, 33.5 x 22.2cm.
 $22,500
47 Gyula Halász Brassaï (French, 1899-1984)
Defense de Prendre de l'Eau (Sleeping Machinist at the Folies-Bergiere, Paris), c1933. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, Annotated "27" in pencil verso, 23.5 x 17.5cm. A few minor chips to edges, old paperclip indentation lower left.
Illustrated in Labyrinthe, No. 14, Nov. 15 1945, in an article entitled, "Le Sommeil by Brassaï." Also illustrated in Tucker's Brassaï: The Eye of Paris, pl. 29; Durrell's Brassaï, Museum of Modern Art, NY (MOMA), p48 (there called "Folies-Bergere", 1932); and Brassaï: From Surrealism to Art Informal, Fundacio Antoni Tapies, p141.
 $18,900
48 Gyula Halász Brassaï (French, 1899-1984)
Beggar in the Metro, Paris, 1938. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, photographer's stamp verso, 29.5 x 23.3cm.
Stamp reads "Brassaï. 81, rue de Faubourg St-Jacques. Paris XIV/Teleph.: Pont Royal 23-41." Illustrated in Durrell's Brassaï, MOMA, p53.
 $22,900
49 Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1902-2002)
Cuando La Buena Fama Despierta (When Good Reputation Awakens), 1938/c1978. Silver gelatin photograph, signed and annotated "Mexico" in pencil on backing below image, 24.2 x 17.2cm.
Illustrated in Ariadne Kimberly Huque, ed., Nudes: The Blue House, The Photographs of Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Art Publishers Inc, 2002, p46. Provenance: Purchased from the photographer in 1980.
 $15,800