Grit & Grace: Photographs from the Nelson Brothers Collection
W. Eugene Smith
A Portfolio of Ten Photographs
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15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Grit & Grace: Photographs from the Nelson Brothers Collection
W. Eugene Smith
1918 - 1978
A Portfolio of Ten Photographs
(Roslyn Heights, New York: Witkin-Berley Ltd., 1977, an edition of 25), the complete portfolio of 10 gelatin silver prints, each mounted, signed in ink on the mount, the portfolio label, editioned 24 and sequentially numbered 1 through 10 in ink, on the reverse, framed
images: 9 ⅞ by 13 in. (25.1 by 33 cm.) or the reverse
Executed in 1949-59, printed in 1977.
Witkin-Berley Ltd., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
This portfolio of 10 framed photographs is lacking the printed booklet and black cloth clamshell case, as originally issued.
The photographs are as follows:
Schweitzer, Aspen, Colorado, 1949
Tomoko in her Bath, Minamata, Japan, 1972
Three Generations of Welsh Miners, 1950
Dance of the Flaming Coke, Pittsburg, 1955-56
War—Soldier Holding Baby, Saipan, 1945
Nurse Midwife Delivering Baby, Nurse Midwives Series, 1951
Spanish Spinner, Spanish Village, Life April 9, 1951
Haiti (Madness), 1958-59
Japan, Landscape from Train, 1961-62
Spanish Wake, Spanish Village, 1951
