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Photography/Faces and Places Auction | December 3, 2024

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Faces and Places. Our December 3 Photography auction includes 73 lots by important masters Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Peter Henry Emerson, and Alfred Eisenstaedt, among many others. Beginning with pictorialist works by Emerson and Frederick Henry Evans, the images progress through twentieth century masters Lartigue, D'Oisneau, Orkin, Abbott, Karsh, Erwitt, Siskind, Bill and Nick Brandt, Brett Weston, Margaret Bourke-White, and others; to more recent works by Jan Saudek, Joan Myers, and Wolf von dem Bussche.
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Lot 72

Julius Neelley

Estimate: $100 - $300
Starting Bid
$50

Bid Increments

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$0 $25
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$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

(American, born 1946)

Boy Smoking, circa 1969, vintage gelatin silver print from the Rhode Island School of Design Portfolio, printed in 1969, #24 embossed on mount, 4-1/2 x 5-3/4 in.; black finished wood frame, 18-1/4 x 15-1/4 in.

Provenance: An Important Atlanta Collection

This photograph was created while Neelly was a student of Harry Callahan at RISD in 1969. A print is in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago as reference number 1969.302x.

Note: this print was likely from the portfolio edition 22/150

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An Important Atlanta Collection

mounted to original backing, pin hole sized surface indentation at center of print, barely visible, and barely visible horizontal line anomaly, at center, unretouched dust spots in negative; frame in good condition, acrylic not glass