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Lewis Baltz

Candlestick Point

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May 1, 11:36 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 90,000 USD

Lot Details

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Lewis Baltz

1945 - 2014

Candlestick Point


(San Francisco: self-published, 1988, an edition of 21 and 2 artist's proofs), a portfolio of 84 photographs, comprising 72 silver prints and 12 chromogenic prints, all but the first print signed, each dated, editioned '20/21,' and numbered sequentially 'CP1' through 'CP84' in pencil or ink on the reverse, each framed, 1984-88, printed in 1988; together with the printed title, dedication, introduction, and colophon, signed, dated, inscribed 'For Jack,' and editioned in pencil. 4to, black cloth clamshell box with stamped metallic-red lettering and matching slipcase

each image: 6⅝ by 9 in. (16.8 by 22.9 cm.)

each frame: 8⅝ by 10⅝ in. (21.9 by 27 cm.)

portfolio: 15 by 11 in. (38.1 by 27.9 cm.)

Sotheby's New York, 26 April 2007, Sale 8309, Lot 122, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, as agent
The Grain of the Present (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2017), pp. 52–65 (these prints)

Photographers Looking at Photographs: 75 Pictures from the Pilara Foundation (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), p. 105 (these prints)

Lewis Baltz, Candlestick Point (Tokyo and New York: Gallery Min and Aperture, 1989)

Lewis Baltz, Common Objects (Paris and Göttingen, 2014), unpaginated

Lewis Baltz (Fundación MAPFRE, 2017), pp. 195-218

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Here., May 2011 – January 2012

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, The Grain of the Present, April 2017 – March 2018