Harold Edgerton
'Harold Edgerton: Ten Dye Transfer Photographs'
Estimate: 10.000 - 15.000 USD
Price realised: 60.000 USD
Price realised: 60.000 USD
Description
HAROLD EDGERTON
1903-1990
'HAROLD EDGERTON: TEN DYE TRANSFER PHOTOGRAPHS'
(Massachusetts: Palm Press, Inc., 1985, a proposed edition of 300 numbered copies, 30 publisher's proofs and 26 lettered artist's proofs), a portfolio of 10 dye-transfer prints, each signed and editioned '5/300' in pencil on the reverse, 1938-73, printed in 1985; together with the printed title/colophon/plate list, editioned '5' in pencil. Folio, navy and maroon cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered leather title label
Various sizes to 18 by 14½ in. (45.7 by 36.8 cm.) or the reverse
1903-1990
'HAROLD EDGERTON: TEN DYE TRANSFER PHOTOGRAPHS'
(Massachusetts: Palm Press, Inc., 1985, a proposed edition of 300 numbered copies, 30 publisher's proofs and 26 lettered artist's proofs), a portfolio of 10 dye-transfer prints, each signed and editioned '5/300' in pencil on the reverse, 1938-73, printed in 1985; together with the printed title/colophon/plate list, editioned '5' in pencil. Folio, navy and maroon cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered leather title label
Various sizes to 18 by 14½ in. (45.7 by 36.8 cm.) or the reverse
A top price for Harold E. Edgerton
When the work 'Harold Edgerton: Ten Dye Transfer Photographs' by Harold E. Edgerton was auctioned at Sothebys in New York in October 2019, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - USD 15,000.00 but the actual price achieved was more than four times as high at USD 60,000.00 (€ 53,787.54). This high result makes 'Harold Edgerton: Ten Dye Transfer Photographs' the most expensive artwork by Harold E. Edgerton that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Harold E. Edgerton
Als die Arbeit 'Harold Edgerton: Ten Dye Transfer Photographs' von Harold E. Edgerton im Oktober 2019 bei Sothebys in New York versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – USD 15.000,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit USD 60.000,00 (€ 53.787,54) mehr als viermal so hoch. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht 'Harold Edgerton: Ten Dye Transfer Photographs' zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Harold E. Edgerton, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
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