Page 4 - Swann Galleries - The Trumpet - Fall - Winter 2012

Headlining this sale is Edward S. Curtis’s masterpiece
The North American Indian
,
Curtis’s
documentation of the customs,manners and rituals of more than 80 tribes west of the Mississippi.
This complete set, with 20 folios on Japan tissue (featuring 722 large-format photogravures), and
20
text volumes (with more than 1500 small-format photogravures on vellum), is one of the
most stunning and ambitious photographically illustrated books ever produced. Ink numbered
113/500,
it appears to be the only version containing a treasure trove of 111 large-format
photogravures signed by Curtis.
Other early photographic highlights include Alexander Gardner’s photographically illustrated
volume
Rays of Sunlight in South America
, 1859,
and the Charles Lummis album
Picturesque New
Mexico
containing 95 cyanotypes, 1889-1891.
Among featured vintage prints are Robert Frank’s
For David Heath (Self-Portrait One)
, 1985;
Berenice Abbott,
Pennsylvania Station
, 1936;
Vera Lutter,
Lower Manhattan Skyline
, 1986;
Sally
Mann,
New Mothers
, 1989;
Irving Penn,
Cuzco Children
, 1948-49;
and a signed, uneditioned
Richard Avedon portrait of Bob Dylan from 1965-66, which was given by Avedon to Bob
Cato, a friend, colleague at
Harper’s
,
and designer of Dylan’s most famous album cover. A
Polaroid of Teddy Kennedy by AndyWarhol is also among the sale highlights.
ART, PRESS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
OCTOBER 11
This sale features a rich and varied selection of material on the visual and printed arts. There are five
uncommon books on Gustav Klimt in this celebratory year focusing on the 150th anniversary of his birth,
including his earliest and most impressive monograph,
Das Werk von Gustav Klimt
, 1918.
Also featured are desirable limited editions by the great private presses such as Doves, Kelmscott, and Allen;
and a rich selection of fine art books with prints by Albers, Chagall, Giacometti, Dalí, Goya, Miró,Toulouse-
Lautrec and Picasso.
Contemporary artists’ books including a fine copy of the popular Warhol story
25
Cats Name Sam and
One Blue Pussy;
Roy Lichtenstein’s iconic lithograph of Mao Zedong in Frederic Tuten’s
The Adventures of
Mao on the Long March
;
and Cy Twombly’s
8
Odi di Orazio
.
FINE PHOTOGRAPHS & PHOTOBOOKS
OCTOBER 4
Edward S. Curtis,
The North American Indian
, 20
folios, 20 volumes including 111 signed photogravures, 1907-30.
$1,250,000 to $1,750,000.
Octave Uzanne,
L’Art dans la Décoration Extérieure des Livres
,
one of 60 copies on Japan paper,
bound and owned by master bookbinder Charles Meunier, Paris, 1898. $2,500 to $3,500.