sunday tradition part six ~ 1992 auction of fine art photographs

above, Robert Mapplethorpe, Flower Arrangement, 1982 ~ sold for $6800

In keeping with my Sunday tradition, I am posting images from an archived oldie but goodie, except instead of an interior, I’m posting photographs from an auction catalog that I lovingly filed away from 1992…the auction was to benefit the Photographic Resource Center located at 602 Commonwealth Ave in Boston…at the time, I was a newlywed with no income to spare for art but I can still remember the photographs I fell in love with and the thrill of being there to see them in person…I thought I would feature ten artists that wowed me then and still wow me now…if I had been able to afford some of these works back in 1992, I’d be enjoying quite a sizable profit by now…in fact, seven of the ten artists in today’s post have works in the permanent photography collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston…I fondly remember seeing the Harold Edgerton .30 Bullet Piercing an Apple on exhibit just a few years ago…oh well, I still have the memories and the catalog…enjoy! (just to make us crazy, I’m including the price each piece sold for back in 1992!)

below left, Lucien Aigner, At the Fish Market, Le Touquet, 1934 ~ sold for $480

below right, Lucien Aigner, Marlene Dietrich, Paris, 1936 ~ sold for $1100

below, Richard Misrach, Desert Croquet #1, 1992 ~ sold for $350

below, William Wegman, Symetrical Trio, 1990 ~ sold for $2000

below, Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1976 ~ sold for $1500

below, Harold Edgerton, .30 Bullet Piercing an Apple, 1964 ~ sold for $1900

below, Lynn Davis, Heide Coste, 1982 ~ sold for $850

below, Jerry Berndt, Susanna Vennerbeck, Boston Ballet Co., 1989 ~ sold for $130

below, Arnold Newman, Picasso, Villa de Californie, Cannes, 1956 ~ sold for $1500

below, Eva Rubinstein, Dubrovnik, 1973 ~ sold for $500

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