Peter Henry Emerson
Marsh Leaves. London: David Nutt, 1895.
Estimate: 5.000 - 8.000 GBP
Price realised: 6.250 GBP
Price realised: 6.250 GBP
Description
PETER HENRY EMERSON
Marsh Leaves. London: David Nutt, 1895.
Quarto (288 x 185mm). 16 photogravures with original printed guards. (Text leaves with light spotting.) Publisher's white pictorial cloth, and sheep-leather spine, front cover blocked in black, spine in gilt (covers stained, spine and one corner rubbed and scuffed, endpapers browned).
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, WITH A COMPLIMENTS SLIP TIPPED-IN, in a contemporary, probably secretarial hand: 'With Mr. P.H. Emerson's compliments'. These studies of softly rendered details from nature are 'THE CULMINATION OF EMERSON'S ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT' (Grolier). 'Certainly, the 16 photo-etchings take his art to where it could probably go no further, and as a fusion of text and imagery the book is entirely successful... It is one of the most beautiful books about isolation and solitude, perhaps death, ever made, and Emerson's spare, evocative pictures were seldom equalled by the later Pictorialists' (The Photobook). Grolier, The Truthful Lens 54; The Photobook, vol. I, p.72.
Marsh Leaves. London: David Nutt, 1895.
Quarto (288 x 185mm). 16 photogravures with original printed guards. (Text leaves with light spotting.) Publisher's white pictorial cloth, and sheep-leather spine, front cover blocked in black, spine in gilt (covers stained, spine and one corner rubbed and scuffed, endpapers browned).
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, WITH A COMPLIMENTS SLIP TIPPED-IN, in a contemporary, probably secretarial hand: 'With Mr. P.H. Emerson's compliments'. These studies of softly rendered details from nature are 'THE CULMINATION OF EMERSON'S ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT' (Grolier). 'Certainly, the 16 photo-etchings take his art to where it could probably go no further, and as a fusion of text and imagery the book is entirely successful... It is one of the most beautiful books about isolation and solitude, perhaps death, ever made, and Emerson's spare, evocative pictures were seldom equalled by the later Pictorialists' (The Photobook). Grolier, The Truthful Lens 54; The Photobook, vol. I, p.72.
Auction result well in line with expectations
The work Marsh Leaves. London: David Nutt, 1895. by Peter Henry Emerson was sold in the Photobooks auction at Christies in London in May 2009. The price achieved of GBP 6,250.00 (€ 7,149.94) was within expectations - the estimate range had previously been set by the auction house as GBP 5,000.00 – 8,000.00. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Peter Henry Emerson - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Selected Images, which sold at auction in October 2017 for USD 30,000.00 (€ 25,755.49).
Auktionsergebnis im Rahmen der Erwartungen
Die Arbeit Marsh Leaves. London: David Nutt, 1895. von Peter Henry Emerson wurde im Mai 2009 in der Auktion Photobooks bei Christies in London versteigert. Der dabei erzielte Preis von GBP 6.250,00 (€ 7.149,94) lag im Rahmen der Erwartungen – die Schätzpreisspanne war von dem Auktionshaus zuvor mit GBP 5.000,00 – 8.000,00 angegeben worden. Für andere Arbeiten von Peter Henry Emerson mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Selected Images beobachtet, die im Oktober 2017 für USD 30.000,00 (€ 25.755,49) versteigert wurde.
Peter Henry Emerson - Auction history
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