Catalogue 19 juin - Serge Plantureux

PRINCIPLES OF DESCRIPTION AND DUE DILIGENCE
• The cataloguing principles used have been specially established to describe the history
and stigma of authentic positive photographic prints, pictures and not images or late editions. When comparable prints were accessible, the lots offered in this auction have been
compared in quality and priority.
• The identifications have been carefully checked, when a print could not be attributed,
there is an indication of the society where its creator lived.
• The provenance and legitim origin of every lot have been carefully checked in order to
propose to the buyers a peaceful enjoyment of their properties.
• The following cataloguing order is adopted:
• Name of the photographer or atelier, followed by the dates,
• Title, in italic when given by the photographer, with the geographical location and date of
production of the print, the abbreviation “c.” stands for circa,
• Material description, photographic process, dimensions of the print (never the mount) in
mm, height before width, signatures, stamps and captions,
20 June 2015 at 2 pm
Documentary Photography II
• Comments, quotes, history of publications and eventual exhibitions,
• Estimations, the low and high estimates are separated by one or two bid increases. The reserve corresponds to one bid under the low estimate. For example, when lot 314 has an estimation of 300/400 euros, orders and commissions will be accepted from 250 euros, level
where the auction will start.
VIEWING: PARIS, 5, RUE DU PERCHE 03.06 / 08.06.2015
BRUSSELS, 40, RUE DE L’AQUEDUC 12.06 / 18.06.2015
ONLINE AUCTION WITH DROUOTLIVE.COM
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Serge Plantureux
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Price: 10 euros (20 euros with postal delivery)
We are pleased to present you the second catalogue of our two-day photography sale. From all over Europe and overseas, we have received little-known photographic material unearthed from sleeping bookshelves, dog-houses, attics and basements. We include a few gems
from the André Jamme’s Collection, a nice set of photographs of Paris and the Paris Commune
from the Jean-Pierre Faur Collection (a Paris-based bibliophile).
The enjoyment of investigation, combined with rigorous material analysis, has been our daily
bread for the past three months, in Brussels and Montreuil, where five future art market specialists enrolled in professional training with Drouot, together with a young Turkish videoartist joined the laboratory to prepare this catalogue, selecting the photographs as tangible
objects rewarding aesthetic contemplation through their young eyes. The prints that could
not be dated have not been included. Cécile Olleac
Gwenaelle Benon
Christelle Chabrier
Selma Djoudé
Jérémie Oboussier
Ali Deniz Özkan
The Friday 19th June catalogue presents a selection of 267 photographs in chronological
order, questioning if, when Photography was practiced in a continuous present, it was either
nourished or encumbered by a living past. The editing of the catalogue as a Picture book with
piquant juxtapositions was in that sense a prominent critical tool*.
The Saturday 20th June catalogue describes 533 lots, organized by place of origin, without
distinction about the photography’s myriad vernacular applications.
Overall, we offer a total of 800 lots with more than six thousand documentary photographs,
which may be of particular interest to libraries, museums, private collectors, and experienced
and young amateurs.
We plan to organize photography auctions, on a two-day basis, twice a year, in Autumn and
Spring, with the small treasures and finds from Europe and overseas entrusted to us. The next
appointment for amateurs is the Christmas Auction on December 11-12, 2015 .
*”The key here is the twin conviction that photography has an epicenter and that the conventional
tools of art history aren’t of much use in locating it.. Even the most ordinary, unembellished camera
records—perhaps especially those pure products of uninflected camera vision—embody the medium’s
mercurial aesthetic potential. An indication of the sustained vitality of that perception is Michel Frizot’s
recent book, Every Photograph is an Enigma, which might be described as a sketch for a grammar of
the reception of photographs” (Peter Galassi, Pierre de Fenoÿl’s Anonymes: Another Look, 2015).
AUCTION 56 SECOND DAY
Netherlands
267-270
Belgium
271-284
France
285-420
British Isles
421-430
Italy
431-487
Spain
488-499
Maghreb
500-508
Egypt
509-536
Jerusalem
537-545
Syria-Lebanon
546-559
Persian Gulf
560-562
Turkey
563-571
Greece
572-575
Balkans
576-584
DACH
585-604
Bohemia
605-612
Poland
613-616
Baltic Nations
617-624
Nordic Countries
625-631
Russia
632-675
United States
676-733
Mexico
734-766
Cuba
767-769
South America
770-784
Southeast Asia
785-789
China
789-791
Japan
792-794
Africa
795-800
625-631
632-675
617-624
421-430
267-284
285-420
572-584
431-487 563-571
488-499
676-733
585-616
538-559
500-508
509-537
767-769
789-791
792-794
560-562
785-788
764-766
795-800
770-784
AUCTION 56 SECOND DAY: DOCUMENTING SPACE
488
JEAN LAURENT (1816-1886)
Album Andalusia, 1870s
Fifty-five (55) albumen prints, 340x240 mm, captioned in
negatives, strong tonality, vintage binding. A fine album of
mostly architectural studies.
(55) € 1.500/1.800
489
JEAN LAURENT (1816-1886)
Street Scene, Andalusia, c. 1860
Large albumen print, 340x249 mm, paper mount, signature
dry stamp.
€ 300/400
490
Circle of CONTRERAS
Maquette for the Alhambra, c. 1858
SPAIN
LOTS 488-499
Albumen print, 175x160 mm, on mount. “Contreras tenía un
taller de decoración donde se realizaban estas piezas a escala
y las vendióen toda Europa. Con ese motivo, se reprodujeron
a veces por fotógrafos externos, mostrando como piezas originales lo que no eran sino copias modernas. Sabemos que
fotógrafos como Clifford y Laurent fotografiaron estas piezas,
asícomo otros autores franceces, Bisson (JPS)
€ 300/400
491
ANTONIO ESPLUGAS PUIG (1852-1929)
Monserrat y Trajes valencianos, c. 1885
494
Two (2) albumen prints, 275x210 and 117x160
mm.
(2) € 200/250
492
GUSTAVE DE BEAUCORPS (1824-1906)
Charles V palace, Granada, 1858
Albumen print, 280x385 mm, gold toned, on
mount, strong tonality.
JUAN ROSSY / LEON & LEVY
€ 1.800/2.000
Casa del Socorro, Sevilla, 1870s
2 albumen prints, 220x278 and 278x217 mm,
Rossy stamp and “LL” credit.
(2) € 100/150
493
495
FRANCISCO DE LEYGONIE (c.1825-?)
EMILIO BEAUCHY (1847-1928)
Sevilla, c. 1865
Alcazar, Sevilla, c. 1885
Two (2) albumen prints, 170x230 mm, blacktoned, wet stamp on one verso.
(2) € 1.500/1.800
4 albumen prints, 170x230 mm, numbered, titled and signed in the negative.
(4) € 100/150
496
497
FRANCE PRESSE REPORTER
498
FEDERICO PATELLANI (1911-1977)
Dolores Ibarri, the Pasionaria in Paris, 1939
La fantastica storia di Don Chisciotte della Mancia, 1970
Vintage silver press print, 162x210 mm, agency stamp
and caption:. “La militante communiste espagnole... est
arrivée ce matin à Paris, venant d’Oran où elle s’était
réfugiée... 9 mars 1939”.
€ 400/500
Five (5) vintage silver prints, 240x300 mm, stamps and captions “Pat Pictures. Windmills.
(5) € 400/500
NEW YORK TIMES & AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
499
FEDERICO PATELLANI (1911-1977)
Spanish exodus, Spanish-French border, c. 1939
La fantastica storia di Don Chisciotte della Mancia, 1970
5 vintage silver prints, 162x210 mm, stamp, verso.
(6) € 600/700
Five (3) vintage silver prints, 240x300 mm, stamps and captions “Pat Pictures. Stunts
(3) € 300/400
500
J. GARRIGUES
Bédouine, Tunis, c. 1890
Albumen print, 256x196 mm, titled, numbered and signed in the negative.
“Photographe professionnel, Garrigues participe en 1884 avec Delsol à la mission
archéologique Cagnat et Saladin. Son studio
est installé 14 avenue de la Commission, puis
9 avenue de France, à Tunis. Il est le photographe officiel du bey... récompensé par
des médailles, Paris, 1889, Tunis et Toulouse,
1898. Le studio est repris par Lehnert et Landrock”.
€ 100/150
501
J. GARRIGUES
Juive de Tunis, c. 1890
Vintage silver print, 257x196 mm, titled,
numbered and signed in the negative.
€ 100/150
MAGHREB
LOTS 500-508
502
J. GARRIGUES
Arabe riche, c. 1890
Albumen print, 260x200 mm, numbered
and titled in the negative.
€ 100/150
506
503
FELIX MOULIN (1802-1875)
Fauconnier, Algerie, 1890s
Oasis d’El Kantara, Algiers, c. 1856
Collodion on paper print, 225x275 mm, numbered in
the negative : “1135. Fauconniers”.
€ 100/150
Albuminized salt print, 190x255 mm, on
mount, blindstamp and vintage exhibition
label “Oasis d’El Kantara, vue prise du DarDiaf. Sahara”, mount verso.
€ 200/250
504
507
Two (2) albumen prints, 275x208 mm, title in pencil,
verso. “Although the Ouled Naïls’ primary roles and activities in their rural milieu were connected with animal
farming, most women were trained in the art of dance
and song since childhood. Thus for Ouled Naïl females
the practice of leaving their ancestral home and settling
in a nearby desert town as entertainers was common”.
FELIX MOULIN (1802-1875)
Albumen print, 220x162 mm, mounted,
blindstamp, on mount, vintage exhibition
label “Négresses, Mdes de Pains et de Poissons,
Biskri, Alger”.
€ 200/250
JOSEPH PEDRA (1809-1879)
NEURDEIN FRERES (ND PHOTO)
Rue des Ouled-Naïls, Bains Maures, Biskra, c.1890
Négresses, Biskra, c. 1856
505
EUGÈNE MICHEL (ALGIERS)
(2) € 100/150
508
PIERRE BOUCHER (1908-2000)
Un Douar, Tlemcen, c.1860
Fez, Rabat, Dadès, Marocco, 1930’s
Two (2) albumen prints, 195x260 mm.
Five (5) vintage silver prints, 300x240 mm, stamped, titled in pencil, verso.
(5) € 400/500
(2) € 200/250
509
After ALPHONSE BICHEBOIS (1801-1850)
Temple Views, Karnak, 1840
Two (2) drawings, 200x315 mm, French note
“d’après dessin Bichebois”.
(2) € 200/250
510
ANTONIO SCHRANZ (1801-1864)
Sultan Hakim, Cairo, c. 1852
Salt print, 235x190 mm, old caption on mount:
”Sultan Hakim”, pencil. From Honoré d’Albert,
Duc de Luynes collection.
€ 250/300
511
ANTONIO SCHRANZ (1801-1864)
Mosque of Qaitbay, Cairo, c. 1852
Vintage silver print, 189x235 mm, mounted and
captioned. Images by Schranz are held in the collections of New Mexico University Art Museum,
the MOMA, and the Michael Wilson Center of
Photography.
€ 250/300
EGYPT
LOTS 509-537
512
ANTONIO SCHRANZ (1801-1864)
Sultan Sharkim, Daar Oasis?, c. 1852
Salt print, 190x233 mm, old caption on mount:
”Sultan Sharkim”.
€ 250/300
517
WILHELM HAMMERSCHMIDT
Karnak, c. 1860
513
ROBERT MURRAY (1822-1893)
Albumen print, 235x310 mm, signed and numbered in
the negative.
€ 150/200
Granite obelisk, Karnak, c. 1852
Salt print, 235x183 mm, printed label on
original mount.
€ 300/400
514
518
View at Girgeh, Upper Egypt, 1857
ROBERT MURRAY (1822-1893)
Albumen print, 228x158 mm, signed and dated in the
negative and on the mount.
€ 150/200
View of Luxor, Thebes, c. 1852
Salt print, 227x187 mm, printed label on
original mount.
€ 300/400
515
519
FRANCIS FRITH (1822-1898)
WILHELM HAMMERSCHMIDT
Great Temple, Karnak, 1857
General view of Philae, c. 1860
Albumen print, 166x234 mm, signed and numbered
“N°44” in the negative and on the mount.
€ 150/200
Albumen print, 235x315 mm, signed and
numbered “81”.
€ 100/150
516
FRANCIS FRITH (1822-1898)
WILHELM HAMMERSCHMIDT
520
FRANCIS FRITH (1822-1898)
Cataract of the Nile, Philae, c. 1860
Abou Simbel, Nubia, 1857
Albumen print, 240x315 mm, signed and
numbered “79”.
€ 100/150
Albumen print, 219x157 mm, signed and numbered
“N°7” in the negative and on the mount. € 150/200
524
PASCAL SEBAH (1823-1886)
Rooftop, Cairo, c. 1873
Albumen print, 202x257 mm, strong
tonality.
€ 100/150
525
521
Fontaine de la Mosquée Mehemet
Ali, Constantinople, c. 1870
After ALPHONSE BICHEBOIS
PASCAL SEBAH (1823-1886)
Albumen print, 204x262 mm,
mounted, titled, numbered “11” and
signed in the negative.
€ 100/150
Hypostile, Karnak, c. 1873
Two (2) documents, one (1) drawing and one
(1) albumen print, 266x205 mm, signed in the
negative.
(2) € 200/250
522
526
PASCAL SEBAH (1823-1886)
Albumen print, 203x264 mm, titled,
signed, numbered “134” in the negative, the head in the window is a
montage.
€ 200/250
Albumen print, 200x262 mm, numbered “65”
and signed in the negative.
€ 100/150
PASCAL SEBAH (1823-1886)
PASCAL SEBAH (1823-1886)
Market scene with montage, 1870s
Temple, Karnak, c. 1875
523
PASCAL SEBAH (1823-1886)
527
PASCAL SEBAH (1823-1886)
Dandur Temple in its first location, c. 1873
Île de Biguèh, Île de Philae, 1870s
Three (3) albumen prints, 200x262 mm, captioned in negatives. Tthe original temple is now
rebuilt inside the MET.
(3) € 150/200
Three (3) albumen prints, 200x260
mm, signed and titled in the negatives.
(3) € 150/200
528
PASCAL SEBAH (1823-1886)
530
Chameliers du Sinaï, 1870s
Great Sphinx of Giza, c. 1873
Albumen print, 203x264 mm, on
mount, titled in the negative.
Albumen print, 200x270 mm, loose, signed
in the negative, strong tonality.
€ 150/200
€ 200/250
529
PASCAL SEBAH (1823-1886)
PASCAL SEBAH (1823-1886)
531
AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGIST
Tents, Egypte, 1870s
Pictorialist compositions, Egypt, 1910s
Albumen print, 202x264 mm, on
mount, titled in the negative.
€ 100/150
Three (3) vintage silver prints on matte
paper, 210x230 mm and 230x240 mm, on
mounts, no caption.
(3) € 150/200
532
ZANGAKI BROTHERS
Master Lolo à la chasse, 1880s
Albumen print, 210x275 mm, on mount,
signed and titled in the negative.
€ 100/150
533
ZANGAKI BROTHERS
Water carriers, Cairo, c.1875
Albumen print, 275x213 mm, mounted and
numbered in the negative “243”.
€ 150/200
535
AMERICAN TOURIST
The Pyramids, 1920s
Photogravure, 185x255 mm. The photographer could
afford the expenses of having personal photo diary
transformed in photogravures.
€ 100/150
536
AMERICAN TOURIST
Inside the Valley Temple, 1920s
534
PASCAL SEBAH (1823-1886)
Arab family, Cairo, c. 1875
Albumen print, 263x202 mm, titled, and
signed in the negative.
€ 150/200
Photogravure, 260x192 mm (plate). “Mariette directed
excavations of the pyramid's Valley Temple, which is
also related to the Great Sphinx, in 1853. A year later,
he was responsible for unearthing one of ancient
Egypt's most famous and beautiful statues, that of
Khafre on his throne”.
€ 100/150
537
ZANGAKI BROTHERS
Russian Orthodox Church, c. 1880
Albumen print, 225x283 mm, on board, captioned
in the negative “Eglise russe”.
€ 100/150
538
ZANGAKI BROTHERS
Vue de Jerusalem prise sur le Bethesda, c. 1880
Albumen print, 230x285 mm, on board, captioned
in the negative.
€ 100/150
539
FRANCIS FRITH (1822-1898)
Town and Lake of Tiberias, 1857
Albumen print, 154x224 mm, titled , signed in the
negative.
€ 150/200
540
RUSSIAN PHOTOGRAPHER
Campement à Jerusalem, 1868
Albumen print, 161x222 mm, French caption on
the mount “Campement à Jerusalem”. Another
print in the digital album “Записки скучного человека - Путешествие в Египет, Синай, Иорданию
и Палестину. 1868”.
€ 200/250
541
MELVILLE PETER BERGHEIM (1815-1890)
The Pool of Siloam, Jerusalem, c. 1860
JERUSALEM
Albumen print, 190x245 mm, loose, handwritten
caption on verso.
LOTS 537-559
“The pool where Jesus healed the blind man”. Cf.
Pierre Fournié. Regard sur le monde. Trésors photographiques du Quai d’Orsay.
€ 100/150
542
FELIX BONFILS (1831-1885)
IIIe Station, Jerusalem, c. 1870
Albumen print, 218x273 mm, signed and
numbered in the negative. Bonfils captured a stoical beggar.
€ 200/250
543
LOUIS DE CLERCQ (1837-1901)
IIIe Station, Jerusalem, 1859
Albumen print from a paper negative,
275x217 mm, mounted, heraldic signature, printed caption.
€ 600/800
544
545
Église Sainte Anne, Jerusalem, c. 1854
Salt print from a paper negative (BlanquartEvrard print), 230x320 mm, printed title on
mount, numbered “88” in the negative.
€ 1.200/1.500
LOUIS DE CLERCQ (1837-1901)
IIe Station, Jerusalem, 1859
Albumen print from a paper negative,
271x210 mm, mounted, heraldic signature, printed captions “IIe Station, Jesus
est chargé de sa croix, cette station est
placée au bas de la Scala Santa qui a été
entièrement transportée a Rome, il n’en
reste que les premières assises” (Cf Lyes
Hammadouche et Romain Renault, Via
Dolorosa, video 2011).
€ 600/800
AUGUSTE SALZMANN (1824-1872)
546
LOUIS DE CLERCQ (1837-1901)
Kalaat-El-Markab, Syria, c. 1859
Albumen print from a paper negative, 275x217
mm, mounted, heraldic signature, printed captions “Vue partielle des murs (ouest?)”.
€ 600/800
547
548
HENRI JOSEPH SAUVAIRE (1831-1896)
550
Chaubak ruins, Jordania, c. 1860
Chaubak ruins, Jordania, c. 1860
Albumen print from a paper negative, 177x248 mm,
mounted. Provenance: Honoré d’Albert, duc de
Luynes.
€ 600/800
Albumen print from a paper negative, 162x235 mm,
mounted. Provenance: Duc de Luynes. € 600/800
HENRI JOSEPH SAUVAIRE (1831-1896)
Fort, Jordania, c. 1860
551
HENRI JOSEPH SAUVAIRE (1831-1896)
Karak, Syria, c. 1860
Albumen print from a paper negative, 176x245 mm,
mounted. With the photographer‘s campement,
commissioned by Duc de Luynes.
€ 600/800
HENRI JOSEPH SAUVAIRE (1831-1896)
Chaubak ruins, Jordania, c. 1860
Albumen print from a paper negative, 176x250 mm,
mounted. From Duc de Luynes.
€ 600/800
549
HENRI JOSEPH SAUVAIRE (1831-1896)
Albumen print from a paper negative, 176x254 mm,
mounted. Provenance: Duc de Luynes. € 600/800
552
FRANCIS FRITH (1822-1898)
View at Hebron, 1857
Albumen print, 218x246 mm, titled, signed in the
negative.
€ 150/200
553
FELIX BONFILS (1931-1885)
Panorama of Hebron, c. 1870
Albumen print, 280x390 mm, signed in the
negative “Bonfils 44”, strong tonality. The
Bonfils family moved to Beirut in 1867 where
they opened a photographic studio called
"Maison Bonfils". Another print at Charentonle-Pont.
€ 400/500
554
556
Ruins, Lebanon, c. 1864
Albumen print, 190x253 mm, mounted. Provenance: Duc de Luynes.
€ 400/500
557
Albumen print, 163x230 mm, mounted. Provenance: Duc de Luynes.
€ 400/500
558
Albumen print, 220x157 mm, titled, signed
in the negative.
€ 200/250
555
LOUIS VIGNES (1831-1896)
Ruins, Lebanon, c. 1864
FRANCIS FRITH (1822-1898)
The greats Pillars, Baalbek, 1857
LOUIS VIGNES (1831-1896)
LOUIS VIGNES (1831-1896)
Ruins, Lebanon, c. 1864
Albumen print, 195x255 mm, mounted.. Provenance: Duc de Luynes.
€ 400/500
Attr. to CAMILLE ROGIER
Baalbek, Lebanon, c. 1851
Salt print, 224x174 mm. On the return from
Egypt, Maxime du Camp et Gustave Flaubert
paused in Beyrouth at their friend’s Camille
Rogier. They traded their camera for red
Damask.
€ 600/800
559
JACQUES BOYER
Saïda, Beirut, c. 1910
Four (4) silver prints, 130x180 mm, captions and
stamp on verso, captions reversed in negative.
(4) € 150/200
560
[GUSTAVE LE BON]
Mossoul, Bagdad, 1880s
Five (5), albumen, citrate and silver
prints, 85x150, 130x180, 153x215
mm, French handwritten captions
on verso. Provenance : documentation of Gustave le Bon, author of La
Civilisation des Arabes, 1884.
(5) € 300/400
561
ANTOINE SEVRUGUINE
Shah’s Lake Pavilion, c. 1870
Large albumen print, 265x377 mm,
mounted and handwritten Germancaption on the back. Nice example
of the large Sevruguin format
€ 300/400
562
YEMEN PHOTOGRAPHER
Aden, Yemen, 1880s
PERSIAN GULF
LOTS 560-562
Two (2) albumen prints, 222x252
mm and 180x237 mm, blackened
captions in the negatives.
Images sometime reproduced to
document Aden at the time of Arthur
Rimbaud’s stay.
(2) € 200/300
563
ABDULLAH FRERES
Déjeuner sur l’herbe, Yusa Tepesi, 1865
Albumen print, 196x256 mm, mounted and
numbered “611” in the negative.
“Photography’s aesthetic power in its unique
capacity to capture chance, to lead the invisible into the domain of the visible. In so
far as that chance is or can be in play, every
photo is anonymous in the sense that the
genesis of a successful photograph cannot
be attributed solely to the action of its author” (Pierre de Fenoÿl).
€ 300/400
564
W. & D. DOWNEY (1829-1915)
Prince Abdul Hamid, Balmoral, 1867
Albumen print on a Downey album card,
145x103 mm, a Paris Albert Hautecoeur
stamp on verso.
The future Sultan Abdul Hamid II is here
photographed as a Şehzade (Prince) in Balmoral Castle, Scotland in 1867. Provenance,
private collection of a Colombian politician,
Bogotá.
TURKEY
LOTS 563-571
565
No attribution
Bosphorus Boatsmen, Eyoub, c. 1870
Albumen print, 260x190 mm, “Eyoub”, negative number “647”.
€ 100/150
566
PASCAL SEBAH (1823-1886)
Palais à Dolmabahçe, 1860
Large albumen print, 260x345 mm,
mounted, numbered and captioned on
verso. “Dolmabahçe is the largest
palace in Turkey. It has an area of
45,000 m2 (11.1 acres), and contains
285 rooms, 46 halls, 6 baths (hamam)
and 68 toilets”.
€ 200/250
569
RUSSIAN PHOTOGRAPHER
Süleymaniye Mosque, 1900s
Two (2) vintage silver prints,
120x160 mm, pasted and retouched.
(2) € 200/250
567
PASCAL SEBAH (1823-1886)
Entrée du Palais à Dolmabahçe, 1860
570
Süleymaniye Mosque, c. 1860
Large albumen print, 215x270 mm,
mounted, numbered and captioned on
verso.
€ 100/150
568
PASCAL SEBAH (1823-1886)
Le Sultan a la Mosquée d’Ortaköy le
Vendredi, Constantinople, c. 1870
Large albumen print, 210x255 mm,
mounted, captioned and numbered
“72” in the negative.
€ 100/150
Attr. to PASCAL SEBAH
Albumen print, 210x268 mm,
mounted, numbered and captioned on verso.
€ 100/150
571
PASCAL SEBAH (1823-1886)
L’Intérieur de Ste-Sophie, c. 1870
Albumen print, 239x334 mm,
mounted, titled, numbered “87”
and signed in the negative, strong
tonality
€ 100/150
572
DIMITRIOS CONSTANTIN
The Acropolis from the Southwest, c. 1865
Large albumen print, 286 x 387 mm,
signed in the negative (lower right side).
Another print of this exceptional image at
the Getty Museum
€ 300/400
573
DIMITRIOS CONSTANTIN
The Acropolis and Zeus Temple, c. 1865
Albumen print, 205x255mm, twice numbered “3”, decent tonality.
€ 200/300
574
No attribution
Cariatids, Athens, c. 1920
Vintage silver print on matte paper, 220x280
mm, pleasant composition.
€ 100/150
GREECE
LOTS 572-575
575
REINE BRIAC & RAOUL CELLY
Le Voyage en Grèce, 1937
Five (5) vintage silver prints, 170x235 mm,
dated and titled on verso, pencil. Published
in: “Le Voyage en Grèce” “Cahiers Périodiques” Paris, 1938.
(5) € 400/500
576
PIETRO MARUBBI (1834-1903
Albanese Beauty, Shkodra, c. 1875
Albumen print on cabinet card, 150x110, text in
Italian and Turkish.
150/200
577
IVAN ANASTASOV KARASTOYANOV
Watchtower, Belogradchik, c. 1900
Citrate print, 150x110.
Against fruit thieves (called here gypsies). Cf. Petar
Boev, Fotografskoto izkustvo v Balgaria /18561944/. Sofia: DI "Septemvri", (1983), p.147.
€ 100/150
578
IVAN ANASTASOV KARASTOYANOV
Troglodit castle, Belogradchik, c. 1900
Tw0 (2) citrate prints, 200x245, 200x240 mm.,
Reproduced in the Sofia album “Beautiful Bulgaria, La Belle Bulgarie”.
(2) € 200/250
BALKANS
LOTS 576-584
579
ARMÉE FRANÇAISE
Front Serbo-Bulgare, Pojarevatz, Palais de Lioubitchéro, Gorge de Gorniaque, 1915
Thirty (30) silver prints, 150x110 mm, with a
printed page of numbered captions issued by
Maison d’Émile Deyrolle.
€ 600/700
580
SERBIAN PHOTOGRAPHER ?
Tandem bicycle, Belgrade ?, c. 1890
Albumen print, 272x320 mm, legend on
mount : “Serbie ?” verso. Provenance: The
Michel Braive collection.
€ 200/250
582
JULIETTE LASSERRE (ZIEGERT)
Prizren, Kosovo, 1936
Three (3) vintage silver prints, 230x295 mm,
stamps, “Juliette Lasserre” and “Alliance
Photo”. Juliette Ziegert, born 1907 was Germaine Krull assistant.
€ 300/400
583
RAOUL CELLY (1902-1975)
Market Scenes, Krujë, Albania, 1937
Three (3) vintage silver prints, 230x175 mm,
captioned by the artist, verso.
€ 300/400
581
KAROLY KOLLER (1838-1889)
Ethnographische Studien, Transylvania,
c. 1860
Two (2) albumen prints, 317x247 and
318x242 mm, titled and signed.
“ Van Helsing is silly, spectacular and fun"
(Chicago Sun Times).
(2) € 400/500
584
RAOUL CELLY (1902-1975)
Bouches du Kotor, Montenegro, 1937
Three (3) vintage silver prints, 230x175 mm,
pn AgfaBrovira paper, signed (1) and captioned by the artist, verso.
Die Toteninseln.
€ 600/700
585
No attribution
Prince Albrecht, c. 1890
Albumen retouched print, 177x260 mm,
German caption.
€ 200/250
586
GERMAN SPEAKING POTOGRAPHER
Litomyšl, c. 1880
Eight (8) albumen prints, 90x100 mm,
mounted and captioned. The German population of Litomysl (Leitomischl) was expelled after the Benes Decrees in 1945.
(8) € 600/700
587
Attr. to CHARLES DE BOUEL
Hôtel Les Trois Rois, Catédrale, Bâle, 1855
Two (2) salt paper prints, 150x190 mm, oval
shape, recent attribution caption, pencil.
“Das Basler Luxushotel Les Trois Rois, früher
Hotel drei Könige, ist eines der ältesten Hotels der Schweiz. Es liegt direkt am Rhein
und an der Mittleren Rheinbrücke”.
(2) € 300/400
GERMAN SPEAKING EUROPE
LOTS 585-604
588
J.C. WOLFF
A New Bridge, Berlin ?, c. 1860
Albumen print, 255x370 mm, stamped on
mount.
€ 200/250
589
590
BRAUN ET CIE STUDIO
591
BRAUN ET CIE STUDIO
Le Mont Pilate, Grindehwald, 1880s
Swiss Rack Railways, 1880s
Five (5) albumen contact prints, 115x180 and
180x115 mm, with full black margins, reference
numbers and captions in pencil, verso.
Five (5) albumen contact prints, 115x180 and
180x115 mm, with full black margins, reference
numbers and captions in pencil, verso.
(5) € 400/500
“In 1857, Braun formed a photography company,
Braun et Cie, and with the help of his sons, Henri
and Gaston. By the 1860s, the Braun et Cie studio
was operating in a factory-like manner, producing
all of its own materials except paper.[3] The studio
created thousands of stereoscopic images of the
Alpine regions of France, Germany, Switzerland,
and Italy”.
(5) € 400/500
BRAUN ET CIE STUDIO
Les Gorges près de Zermatt, 1880s
Three (3) albumen contact prints, 115x180 and
180x115 mm, with full black margins, reference
numbers and captions in pencil, verso.
(3) € 300/400
592
593
[FRANZ ERNST GRAF HARRACH]
594
AUSTRIAN PHOTOGRAPHER
Zur Goldenen Hochzeit, Bruck an der Leitha, 1877
Kaiser Karl, Battlefront, c. 1916
Three (3) albumen prints, 175x235, 190x255 mm,
mounted, retouched, German caption: “Graf Harrch
Bruck, Zur goldenen Hiochzeit”.
(3) € 300/400
Vintage silver print, 125x180 mm, captions on
the print. "Emperor Karl is the only decent man
to come out of the war in a leadership position,
yet he was a saint and no one listened to him. He
sincerely wanted peace, and therefore was despised by the whole world. A wonderful chance
that was lost”(Anatole France).
€ 100/150
CHARLES LALLEMAND (1826-1904)
La Forêt Noire, études, impressions et voyages,
Petit Journal, 1866
Album in-4 with twenty-one (21) albumen prints,
105x80 mm, signed numbered copy 204/210, publisher’s binding. "Les illustrations sont dues àM. Ch.
Lallemand". Nice and fresh copy.
€ 400/500
595
RICHARD RITTER VON DAMASCHKA
Kaulich, c. 1912
Vintage silver print, 290x246 mm, elegant mount,
label, caption: “Ausnahme, Kaulish.”
€ 300/400
598
Attr. to WERNER ECKELT
Mary Wigman Schule, Berlin, c.1950
Vintage silver print, 135x88 mm, stamped verso: Foto Eckelt
596
Mary Wigman (1886-1973) was a German dancer, choreographer, and teacher. The "Mary Wigman-Schule" existed from
1920 until 1942 and continued to operate under Nazi rule in
World War II, when she ofired all the Jewish dancers from her
schools in Germany. What had been the Mary Wigman-Schule
was started again after the war in Dresden by Dore Hoyer.
(3) € 200/250
GERTRUDE FEHR (1895-1996)
Transposition, Kinder, 1936
Vintage silver print, photomontage, 245x307mm,
German caption: “Kinder, 31.3.1936”. Another
transposition in the Helmut Gernsheim collection
Mannheim.
€ 800/1.000
597
WERNER ECKELT (1914-1990)
Berlin, c. 1945
Four (4) pictures, three (3) silver prints on postcard
stock, 86x64, 95x68 mm, 95x74 mm, and one (1)
photogravure, 105x80 mm.
(4) € 400/500
599
WERNER ECKELT (1914-1990)
Long exposures, 10”, 20”, 30”, Berlin, 1940’s
Three (3) vintage silver prints, 138x88 mm, on the back: “10
Sec”, “20” and “30”. These times refer to the development of
the negative.
(3) € 200/250
602
FRANZ SENKINC (1902-1955)
Smiling portrait, Vienna, c. 1932
Vintage silver print, 290x245 mm, mounted
.
€ 300/400
603
FRANZ SENKINC (1902-1955)
Architekt Franz Schacherl, 1932
600
FRANZ SENKINC (1902-1955)
Vintage silver print, 345x300 mm, mounted,
titled and signed on the mount. Embossed
signature and date.
€ 300/400
Oberberger Alm, Kärnten, 1934
Vintage silver print, 380x360 mm, titled and signed
on the mount.
€ 300/400
601
FRANZ SENKINC (1902-1955)
Petroleum lampe, Vienna, c. 1934
Vintage silver print, 290x220 mm, titled and signed
on the mount.
€ 200/250
604
FRANZ SENKINC (1902-1955)
Otto Exinger, c. 1930
Vintage silver print, 240x180 mm.
€ 200/250
605
[DER ENGE PRAGER KREIS]
Max Brod, Prag, 1960
Two (2) vintage silver prints, 230x170,
170x220 mm, with some newspaper cuts
and printed brochures. Brod first met
Kafka on October 23, 1902, when both
were students at Charles University. Brod,
Kafka and Brod's close friend Felix
Weltsch constituted the so-called "Der
enge Prager Kreis" or "close Prague circle". He published his autobiography,
Streitbares Leben, in 1960. Provenance:
Willy Haas.
(2) € 200/250
606
BOHEMIA
LOTS 605-616
No attribution
Architecture of Prague, 1927
Four (4) vintage silver prints on double
weight paper, 220x170, 233x195,
245x305, 285x215 mm, handwritten
Czech and French captions, and one
name: “R. Barwitius”, verso.
(4) € 200/250
607
608
JOSEF SUDEK (1896-1976)
610
Adolf Hoffmeister, c. 1935
Dokoran, Prague, 1956
Vintage silver print on doubleweight paper, 235x175 mm,
Sudek’s wet stamp, caption, pencil,
verso.
€ 500/600
Vintage silver print, 230x168 mm, wet
stamp, titled and signed. Cf. Neumann
Galery, Vilém Reichmann Fotografie,
Essen, march 1992. P. 27.
€ 300/400
JOSEF SUDEK (1896-1976)
611
VILEM REICHMANN (1908-1991)
Bohemian Massif, 1960s
Raněné město, Prague, 1946
Vintage Orbis publisher silver print,
130x179 mm, four languages
printed titles and credit, verso.
Vintage silver print, 197x173 mm, titled
and dated in Czech. Reichmann, German speaking artist from Sudeten became a Czech citizen.
€ 300/400
€ 200/250
609
VILEM REICHMANN (1908-1991)
JOSEF SUDEK (1896-1976)
612
ZDENEK TMEJ (1920-2004)
From the Studio Window, 1960s
Tramway, Prague, [1943] 1995
Vintage Orbis publisher silver print,
180x130 mm, , four languages
printed titles and credit, verso.
€ 200/250
Post-communism silver print, 280x270
mm, signed. Tmej could not print any
photos from 1946 till 1993
€ 300/400
613
LUDVIK SOUCEK (1926-1978)
615
Solarized fishing scene, Prague, c. 1960
Snow and earth, Karlsbad, c. 1930
Vintage silver print, 240x295 mm, caption
and photographer’s blindstamp.
Three (3) vintage silver prints, 175x175 mm,
300x240 mm, mounted, captioned. Jozef Sedlák
is one of those tchecoslovak amateurs photographers who were both close to the documentary and fine-art photography.
(3) € 500/600
€ 200/250
614
JOSEF SEDLAK
JINDRICH SIMEK
616
JOSEF SEDLAK
Gypsy boy, Prague, c. 1950
Snow and earth, Karlsbad, c. 1930
Vintage silver print, 115x120 mm, Jindrich
Simek’s wet stamp.
€ 200/250
Three (3) vintage silver prints, 175x175 mm,
300x240 mm, captioned.
(3) € 500/600
617
A. PAWLIKOWSKI
Monument of Chopin, c. 1920
Vintage silver print, 315x285 mm, photographer’s stamp on verso. famous Monument
of Chopin by Waclaw Szymanowsky (18591930).
€ 100/150
618
J. KRIEGER
Nazladownictwo zastrzega sie, Krakow
Albumen print, 237x270 mm, mounted,
signed and captioned
€ 50/60
619
WITOLD DEDERKO (1906-1988
Female portrait, 1930
Vintage gum print, 180x130 mm, signed. Cf.
biography on GUMA.ART.PL.
€ 200/250
POLAND
LOTS 617-620
620
WITOLD DEDERKO (1906-1988
Blue composition, 1930
Vintage gum print, 180x130 mm, bright
tonality, signed and titled.
€ 200/250
621
JULIUS VAICEKAUSKAS (born 1939)
Countryside Children II, Place, 1960s
Vintage silver print, 152x214 mm, pencilled title in
Lithuanian, “Photography Art Society of Lithuanian SSR”
stamp.
€ 250/300
622
EGONS SPURIS (1931-1990)
Landscape n°1, 1960s
Vintage silver print, 130x295 mm, stamp on paper mount,
english caption, pencil.
€ 300/400
623
EGONS SPURIS (1931-1990)
XIXth century district of Riga, 1960s
BALTIC NATIONS
LOTS 621-624
Vintage silver print, 282x180 mm, stamp on paper mount,
english caption, pencil.
€ 200/250
624
WITALY BUTYRIN (born 1947)
Gavroche, Kaunas, 1960s
Vintage silver print, 152x214 mm, pencilled title :
“Gavroshe”, “Photography Art Society of Lithuanian SSR”
stamp.
€ 250/300
625
CALLA SUNDBECK (1867-1930)
John Bauer, Gränna, Sweden c. 1915
Two (2) vintage silver prints on matte
paper, 230x170 mm, signed on the
print.
(2) € 200/300
626
DANIEL NYBLIN (1856-1923)
Bucolic Fagervik, Finland, 1893
Albumen print, 163x220 mm, handcaptioned and dated on printed mount,
“24 Maj 1893”.
€ 100/150
627
[JÄGERSKIÖLD]
First Steam-boat, 1860s
Albumen print from collodion glass
nagative, 150x205 mm, mounted,
handwritten caption: “Jägerskiöld,
Glas”, nice tonality.
€ 200/250
NORDIC COUNTRIES
LOTS 625-631
628
CARL JAKOB MALBERG (1824-95)
Summer, Sweden, August 1872
Albumen print, 175x248 mm, on
printed mount, handwritten captions.
Stamped on the back.
€ 200/250
629
630
MAGNÚS ÓLAFSSON (1862-1937)
631
MAGNÚS ÓLAFSSON (LJÓSMYNDARI)
Two Panoramas, Iceland, c. 1910
Views of Reykjavik, c. 1910
Four (4) citrate prints, 97x173 mm, assembling two
panoramic views of new city of Reykjavik and
captioned on the back. Home Rule was granted in
1904 when the office of minister for Iceland was
established in Reykjavík. Provenance: Bjorn Jonsson’s archive.
(4) € 400/500
6 citrate prints, 120x165 mm, mounted and captioned
on the mount. “The Culture House was opened in 1909
and has a number of important exhibits. Originally built
for to house the National Library and National Archives
and also previously the location of the National Museum and Natural History Museum, re-modelled to promote the Icelandic national heritage. Many of Iceland's
national treasures are on display, such as the Poetic
Edda, and the Sagas, in their original manuscripts. Reykjavík is famous for its weekend nightlife. Icelanders tend
to go out late, so bars that look rather quiet can fill up
suddenly—usually after midnight on a weekend”.
Provenance: Bjorn Jonsson’s archive. (6) € 400/500
MAGNÚS ÓLAFSSON (1862-1937)
Reykjavik modern aspect, Iceland, c. 1910
4 citrate prints, 97x173 mm, entrecollé and captioned on the back. Provenance: Bjorn Jonsson’s
archive.
(4) 200/250
632
JOSEPH DAZIARO (1805 - 1865)
Intercession Cathedral, c. 1860
Early albumen print, 214x274 mm,
numbered ”33” on the mount.
“Basil, fool for Christ was born to serfs
in December of 1468 or 1469 in
Yelokhovo, near Moscow. Originally an
apprentice shoemaker in Moscow, he
adopted an eccentric lifestyle of
shoplifting and giving to the poor to
shame the miserly and help those in
need. He went naked and weighed
himself down with chains. He rebuked
Ivan the Terrible for not paying attention
in church, and for his violent behaviour
towards the innocent”.
€ 500/600
633
ATTR. TO DAZIARO & CIE
Winter Palace, St Petersburg, 1870s
Three (3) albumen prints, 262x200 mm,
mounted.
(3) € 200/250
RUSSIA
LOTS 632-665
634
JOSEPH DAZIARO (1805 - 1865)
The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, 1860
Albumen print, 214x274 mm, captioned on the mount, some tears but
strong tonality.
€ 100/150
635
636
637
MAKSIM DMITRIEV (1858-1948)
A. VASSILIEV
Churches and Volga River Chapel, c. 1910
Volga River, Samara, c. 1910
Three (3) citrate prints, 222x163 mm.
Two (2) citrate print, 160x220 and 160x215 mm, mounted
and captioned in Russian.
(2) € 300/400
(3) € 300/400
MAKSIM DMITRIEV (1858-1948)
Volga River landscape, Grapevines, Place, c. 1910
Two (2) vintage citrate prints, 173x230 mm.
(2) € 200/250
638
P. A. SERGUEIEV
Composition, c. 1905
Citrate print, 170x226 mm on decorative mount, name
of photographer, pencilled illegible caption, verso.
€ 50/60
639
640
[ILYA YAKOVLEVICH GINZBURG
641
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY (1913-1930
Sculptor Ginzburg in his atelier, SPb, 1890s
Visiting a Red Army Book Fair, 1929
Citrate print, 110x140 mm, mounted, partial
blindstamp on print, difficult to read. Ilya
Ginzburg (1859-1939) made many famous sculptors of musicians and painters.
€ 200/250
Vintage silver press print, 112x155 mm. Modest
but moving working print found in some Lili
Brik archive during Perestroika.
€ 500/600
PHOTO BROD
Tolstoy Jr., c. 1920
Vintage silver print, 180x130 mm, French caption
and agency stamp, verso. Good portrait of the son
of Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy Jr. (1869-1945) writer and
sculptor.
€ 200/250
642
CARL BULLA (1855-1929)
Chaliapine, Saint-Petersburg, 1900
Vintage silver print on matte paper, 225x170
mm, nice tonality.
€ 400/500
643
RUSSIAN HORSES
644
RUSSIAN HORSES
Russia, 1906-1916
Russia, 1906-1916
Six (6) vintage silver prints,
110x164 mm, pencilled
horses’ names, verso.
(6) € 300/400
Six (6) vintage silver
prints, 114x153 mm,
pencilled horses’ names,
verso.
(6) € 300/400
646
V. KORBUT
Soviet gymnasts, URSS, 1920s
Two (2)intage silver print, 80x125 and
97x70 mm.
(2) € 400/500
645
V. KORBUT
Soviet gymnasts, URSS, 1920s
Two (2) vintage silver print, 95x140 and
118x87 mm, reference numbers, pencil. “Photographs by photojournalists Krassinski, V Korbut and SA Magaziner were used to promote
the 1928 Moscow Spartakiad, their work often
showing forays into the avant-garde with experiments in using diagonals, views from above
and perspectives“ (The Olympic Museum, The
Russian Avant-Garde and Sport, Lausanne, February-May 2014).
(2) € 400/500
647
V. KORBUT
Shadows, models for Scuptors, 1920s
Two (2) vintage silver print, 60x86 and
54x100 mm.
(2) € 400/500
650
KRASSINSKI
Boxing, URSS, 1920s
Two (2) vintage silver prints,
130x180 mm, boxers’ names,
verso, ink. Provenance: boxer V.V.
Lebedev.
(2) € 400/500
651
Attr. to KRASSINSKI
K.O., 6th Round, 1928
Vintage silver print, 172x220 mm,
Russian caption, ink, verso. Provenance: Leningrad artist and boxer
V.V. Lebedev.
€ 200/300
648
S.A. KRASSINSKI
Swimming, Moscow Spartakiad, 1928
Vintage silver print, 123x173 mm. Provenance:
artist anf boxer V.V. Lebedev.
(3) € 400/500
649
A. STEINHARDT, SPORT PHOTOGRAPHER
Soviet athletes, Moscow Spartakiad, 1928
Vintage silver print, 210x146 mm. “Photographs by
photojournalists Krassinski, V Korbut and SA Magaziner were used to promote the 1928 Moscow Spartakiad, their work often showing forays into the
avant-garde with experiments in using diagonals,
views from above and perspectives“ (The Olympic
Museum, The Russian Avant-Garde and Sport).
Provenance: V.V. Lebedev.
€ 400/500
652
IGOR KOTELNIKOV (1903-1998)
Ilyich's lamps, Vitebsk, 1920s
Three (3) vintage silver prints, 80x106 and 108x77
mm, dated and captioned on the back.
“The GOELRO Plan was implemented during a 10to 15-year period. According to the Plan, the territory
of the Russian SFSR was divided into eight regions,
with distinct development strategies due to specific
features of each region: Southern Region, Central Industrial region, Northern Region, Ural Region, Volga
Region, Turkestan Region, Caucasus Region and
Western Siberia Region. The Plan included construction of a network of 30 regional power plants, including ten large hydroelectric power plants, and
numerous electric-powered large industrial enterprises.] It was intended to increase the total national
power output per year to 8.8 billion kWh, as compared to 1.9 billion kWh in Imperial Russia in 1913.
Soviet propaganda claimed that the plan was basically fulfilled by 1931. The term "Ilyich's lamp" for
an electric bulb, a reference to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin,
is a reminder of the Plan period”.
(3) € 900/1.000
653
IGOR KOTELNIKOV (1903-1998)
Electric power lines, Vitebsk, july 1930
Vintage silver print, 88x140 mm.
€ 400/500
654
IGOR KOTELNIKOV (1903-1998?)
LE17 instalation, Vitebsk, july 1930
Vintage silver print, 110x80 mm, dated and
captioned on the back.
€ 400/500
655
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
Stalin’s Mother, USSR, 1931
US obituary press print, printed in 1937,
180x130 mm. Ketevan Geladze (1858-1937)
was Josef Stalin’s mother.
€ 300/400
656
PROKOFIEV, POLIAKOV
Red Army, URSS, 1933-1936
Two (2) vintage silver prints, 170x230
175x235 mm, stamps.
(2) € 300/400
657
SOYOUZPHOTO
Red Aviation, URSS, 1933
Two (2) vintage silver prints, 210x150 mm,
Soviet and French agencies stamps. Illustrated
in Rodchenco 1939 album.
(2) € 500/600
658
659
PIONNER OF SOVIET PHOTOGRAPHY
660
STOLIAROV, SOYUZPHOTO
Volga Region Peasants, 1930
Transcaucasia and Soviet Asia, 1930
Two (2) vintage silver prints, 150x210 mm,
French captions and agency stamps.
Three (3) vintage silver prints, 170x230, 126x205
mm, Dutch agency stamp: “Kurt & Margot Lubinsky”.
(2) € 300/400
“Lubinski was a close friend of the famous German
journalist Manfred George who emigrated to the USA
in 1938. Manfred George became the editor-in-chief
of the German Jewish newspaper Aufbau in New
York. Kurt Lubinski was born in Berlin on October 19,
1899. In 1933, he emigrated to Holland and in
1938/1939 to England, and later (probably in 1943)
to New York. His wife Margot Lewin-Richter, a photographer, was born in 1906, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf”.
PIONNER OF SOVIET PHOTOGRAPHY
Spinning Room, USSR, 1930
Vintage silver print, 170x230 mm, German
agency stamp. Soviet reminescence of Lewis
Hine, spinning room, Cornell Mill. Fall River,
Massachusetts.
€ 300/400
(3) € 600/800
661
ALEXANDRE KHLEBNIKOV (1897-1979)
Karakul, (Astrakhan), 1950s
Vintage silver print, 300x240 mm, Russian caption. Leonid Brezhnev and and Paul Gauguin
loved Karakul hats
€ 300/400
662
GEORGY SOSHALSKY (1895-1993)
Title, Place, 999
Four (4) vintage silver prints, 175x115 mm,
archive stamps.
(4) € 200/250
663
GEORGY SOSHALSKY (1895-1993)
Karakul, (Astrakhan), 1960s
Two (2) vintage silver print, 175x125, 235x175
mm, artist’s archive stamps.
(2) € 300/400
665
YURI GAGARINE (1934–1968)
Private Life of a Cosmonaut, 1960s
664
SOVIET COSMONAUTIC ADVENTURE
Gennady Mikhailov, Baïlonur, Gagarine,
1959-1989
Three (3) vintage silver prints, 182x130,
220x163, 180x120 mm, Russian captions.
“The Vostok programme was a Soviet human
spaceflight project to put the first Soviet citizens
into low Earth orbit and return them safely.
Competing with the United States Project Mercury, it succeeded in placing the first human,
Yuri Gagarin, into space, in a single orbit in Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961”.
(3) € 100/150
Three (3) vintage silver prints,
180x130, 115x144, 220x156 mm,
Russian captions. The first two pictures are rare amateurs snapshots,
the third one is a press print.
“Aside from his short stature at 1.57
metres (5 feet 2 inches), one of
Gagarin's most notable traits was his
smile. Many commented on how
Gagarin's smile gained the attention
of crowds on the frequent tours he
did in the months after the Vostok 1
mission success”.
(3) € 300/400