Photographs from the Ginny Williams Collection

Photographs from the Ginny Williams Collection

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Ernst Haas

'The Creation'

Lot Closed

December 4, 03:06 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ernst Haas

1921 - 1986

'The Creation'


(New York: Daniel Wolf Press, 1981-82, an edition of 300), a portfolio of 10 dye-transfer prints, each mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, in individual wrappers with letterpress title and date, 1962-81, printed in 1982; together with printed title, introduction by Haas, plate list, and colophon, signed and with edition 'Portfolio #261' in ink. Oblong folio, maroon linen clamshell box with gilt-lettered leather label

images: each approximately 12 3/4 by 19 3/8 in. (32.4 by 49.2 cm.)

portfolio box: 20 5/8 by 25 in. (52.4 by 63.5 cm.)

The plates are as follows:

New England, 1973
Surtsey Volcano, Near Iceland, 1965
Arizona, 1962
Tobago, 1968
Lake Huntington, Kenya, 1970
Nairobi, Kenya, 1970
Island of Kyushu, Japan, 1981
Sicily, 1965
Kenya, 1970
Vermont, 1969