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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 26

Ruth Orkin

Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000
Starting Bid
$1,000

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(American, 1921-1985) 

Tired Little Boy Outside Circus at Madison Square Garden, circa 1940, printed later, signed in ink lower right margin, also titled and dated in ink lower left margin, inscribed in pencil verso " Tired Little Black Boy After Circus at Madison Square Garden, 1940's/ Ruth Orkin", gelatin silver print, image 12-5/8 x 8-1/2 in., sheet 14 x 11 in.; unframed

Provenance: The Witkin Gallery, Inc. New York, New York, purchased December 30, 1980, facsimile of original receipt accompanies the lot; Private Collection, Wisconsin

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The Witkin Gallery, Inc. New York, New York, purchased December 30, 1980, facsimile of original receipt accompanies the lot; Private Collection, Wisconsin

print surface in excellent condition, no marks on anomalies of any kind