Lot #169: EDWARD STEICHEN - Douglass Lighters - Original warm-toned vintage photogravure

 

Artist: Edward Steichen (American, 1879 - 1973).
Title: "Douglass Lighters [for J. Walter Thompson]".
Medium: Original warm-toned vintage photogravure.
Date: Composed 1926. Printed 1929.
Dimensions: Overall size: 10 5/16 x 8 5/16 in. (262 x 211 mm). Image size: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (241 x 190 mm).
Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. Edition unknown, presumed small. High-grade archival paper. Ample margins. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition; very slight toning to the edges of the sheet, else fine. Comment(s): The silver print of this image is extremely rare. We could locate only one sale of an example at auction, a silver print which sold for an auction record (per “Gordon’s”) of $203,000 at Sotheby's, New York, 4/5/2013, lot #17. Our rare, early, and lifetime printing of this classic Steichen photograph is approximately the same size as the Sotheby’s example, theirs at 9 ¼ x 7 ½ inches, ours 9 ½ x 7 ½. Image copyright © The Edward Steichen Estate/ARS, New York. [30473-2-1200]