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

173 Axel Poignant (1906-1986)
Sam Sue, Pearl Buyer, Broome, Western Australia, 1947/1981. Silver gelatin photograph, signed in ink in margin below, photographer's stamp, titled, dated and annotated in pencil by Roslyn Poignant verso, 30.5 x 42.6cm.
Annotation refers to Poignant's retrospective held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1982.

$5,500
174 David Potts (b.1926)
Best Household Pet - [Crufft's] Cat Show, London, c1947. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled and signed in pencil verso, 34.5 x 50.2cm. Pinholes to worn corners, chips to edges, laid down on foxed, original backing.

$4,400
175 David Potts (b.1926)
Best in Show, Crufft's Cat Show, London, c1947. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled and signed in pencil with two photographer's stamps verso, 50.2 x 34.8cm. Pinholes to corners, chips to edges, laid down on foxed, original backing with glue stains.

$4,400
176 Willy Ronis (French, b.1910)
Rue Muller à Montmartre, Paris, 1934/2001. Silver gelatin photograph, signed in ink in margin below, titled and dated in pencil, photographer's stamp with printing date in ink verso, 43.9 x 29.8cm.

$13,500
177 Willy Ronis (French, b.1910)
Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1954/2005. Silver gelatin photograph, signed in ink in margin below, titled and dated in pencil, photographer's stamp with printing date in ink verso, 31.8 x 43.9cm.

$13,500
178 Jan Saudek (Czech, b.1935)
A Young Girl, Karolina, 1975. Silver gelatin photograph, signed in ink on image lower right, 25.8 x 20.5cm.
Illustrated in The World of Jan Saudek, Photographs, the Master Collection, Book III, p43.
$3,900
179 Athol Smith (1914-1990)
[Gentleman with White Moustache], 1934. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed and dated in pencil on backing below image, 38.6 x 30.7cm. Laid down on original backing with ink stains.
Shmith set up a studio in St Kilda, Melbourne in 1933, specialising in society portraiture and later in fashion and advertising. He helped to establish the photography collection at the National Gallery of Victoria, and was a college lecturer in photography.

$1,900
180 Wolfgang Sievers (b.1913)
Zinc Insulated Gas Flues … , c1960s. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled in pencil, photographer's stamp and caption in ink on label verso, 24.3 x 19.3cm. Minor creases to corners.
Caption continues "in the Sulphuric Acid Plant at the Electrolytic Zinc Works, Risdon, Hobart."

$4,400
181 Wolfgang Sievers (b.1913)
Text181 Wolfgang Sievers (b.1913). Copper, c1960s. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, photographer's copyright stamp and titled in pencil verso, 24.5 x 19.3cm.

$4,400
182 Wolfgang Sievers (b.1913)
Text182 Wolfgang Sievers (b.1913). Gears for Mining Industry, Vickers Ruwolt, Burnley, Melbourne, 1967/2000. Silver gelatin photo-graph, signed and dated in pencil verso, 49.6 x 39.8cm.
Sievers' most famous and desirable image.

$13,500
183 Aaron Siskind (American, 1903-1991)
Gloucester 28, 1944. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated and signed in ink on backing verso, 32.2 x 23.3cm. Laid down on original backing.
Exhibited at Aaron Siskind: The Fragmentation of Language, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, 1998-1999, and The Zoellner Arts Centre, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA, 2002-2003.
$26,900
184 Aaron Siskind (American, 1903-1991)
Jalapa 35 (Homage to F. K.), 1973. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated and signed in ink in margin below, partially titled and dated in pencil verso, 37 x 36.5cm.
The initials in title "F. K." represent Franz Kline.

$16,900