Jan 28, 2025 10:00 EST
Old Master Paintings / Phipps Collection / Silver / English & Continental Furniture
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Alvin Langdon Coburn: London, 1909
Estate / Collection: The Howard Phipps, Jr. Collection, Erchless, Old Westbury
COBURN, ALVIN LANGDON (1882–1966)
BELLOC, HILAIRE (foreword). London. London and New York: Duckworth/Brentano's, 1909. First edition. Publisher's green calf over gray gilt-lettered boards. 16 x 12 inches (40.5 x 31 cm); [24 pp.], with 20 (of 20) very fine hand-pulled photogravures tipped to gray paper sheets. The spine worn (as usual; the leather used was of poor quality) and with old staining, which does not penetrate the book; some rubbing and soiling to the boards, minor intermittent foxing to the text, but with the plates in fresh condition.
Alvin Langdon Coburn was one of the triumvirate of photographers (along with Steichen and Stieglitz) that dominated the field of photography at the turn of the century. He had studied when younger with the American painter and printmaker Arthur Wesley Dow. Coburn prepared the plates for this work himself, and though he did not himself print them (other than some few proofs), he carefully oversaw the preparation of the book. Consequently, it is one of the finest examples of Pictorialism, and a true artist's book. Parr & Badger I:74 noting that this work saw "...the concern of the more advanced pictorialist with ‘modern’ subjects, namely the 20th-century city—a shift in attitude that triggered the final push towards photographic modernism.”
$3,000 - $5,000
Estate / Collection: The Howard Phipps, Jr. Collection, Erchless, Old Westbury
COBURN, ALVIN LANGDON (1882–1966)
BELLOC, HILAIRE (foreword). London. London and New York: Duckworth/Brentano's, 1909. First edition. Publisher's green calf over gray gilt-lettered boards. 16 x 12 inches (40.5 x 31 cm); [24 pp.], with 20 (of 20) very fine hand-pulled photogravures tipped to gray paper sheets. The spine worn (as usual; the leather used was of poor quality) and with old staining, which does not penetrate the book; some rubbing and soiling to the boards, minor intermittent foxing to the text, but with the plates in fresh condition.
Alvin Langdon Coburn was one of the triumvirate of photographers (along with Steichen and Stieglitz) that dominated the field of photography at the turn of the century. He had studied when younger with the American painter and printmaker Arthur Wesley Dow. Coburn prepared the plates for this work himself, and though he did not himself print them (other than some few proofs), he carefully oversaw the preparation of the book. Consequently, it is one of the finest examples of Pictorialism, and a true artist's book. Parr & Badger I:74 noting that this work saw "...the concern of the more advanced pictorialist with ‘modern’ subjects, namely the 20th-century city—a shift in attitude that triggered the final push towards photographic modernism.”
The Howard Phipps, Jr. Collection, Erchless, Old Westbury
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Auction: Old Master Paintings / Phipps Collection / Silver / English & Continental Furniture, Jan 28, 2025
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Auction of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings and The Collection of Howard Phipps Jr., Erchless, Westbury on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 10am
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Auction of English & Continental Silver and English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts on Wednesday, January 28, 2025 at 10am
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