Ariel Meyerowitz Art Advisory

“Kiss Me Stupid,” New York City, 1965

11x14 inch Vintage Gelatin Silver print

Printed by the photographer within 5 years of the negative date

Signed and dated (not titled) in ink in verso of print

In the collection of the MET, Whitney, MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, among others.

$20,000

Oak Tree, Snowstorm, Yosemite Nat'l Park, 1948

10 x 8 inch Gelatin Silver print

Full signature on print recto

Special Edition Print, printed circa 1970/71 under AA's direct supervision

Condition: excellent but has minor nick in the sky portion of the print

$7,000, including frame

Homing Ship, East Walk of Conservatory Pond, Central Park, NY, 1944

10 x 8 Gelatin Silver print

Signed in verso

$14,000

In Homing Ship, taken in 1944, a figure perhaps of a child, carries a model schooner across from Conservatory Pond in Central Park back to the boathouse. The picture presents a body of water, front and center, a puddle essentially, that has become magnified and takes half of the whole composition. Through a sophisticated use of movement and form, the image creates a metaphor of spatial inversion and poetic allusions. Kertész justifies the boat out of the water, referencing that he is also searching for a reconnection to his element.

Children with Soap Bubbles, New York City, 1940

7.5 x 10 7/8 inches (on 11x14” paper)

Signed, titled “N.Y.C”, dated in pencil on verso of print

Printed in the early 1980s under the direct supervision of Helen Levitt

Prov: Purchased directly from the artist by the seller in 1997.

$12,000

Kids in masks, NYC, c. 1942
7.5 x 10 7/8 inch Gelatin silver print on AGFA paper, printed 1970s
Signed, titled, and dated in verso of print
$18,000 (unframed)

Prov: Purchased directly from the artist by the seller in 1997.

NYC, 1940
11.25 x 7.75 inch Gelatin silver print, printed 1990
Signed, titled, and dated verso of print
$18,000 (unframed)

Prov: Purchased directly from the artist by the seller in 1997.

To My Dear Sweetheart

Postcard from Spain, annotated with the date “April 7, 1924” handwritten in pen on the back.

5.25 x 3.25 inches

$400 (matted, unframed)

Untitled (Underwater swimmer), from the series, The Seventh Wave, 1999/2000
31.5 x 47 inch Gelatin Silver print on Type C-paper - printed 2005
Signed in verso of print
AP print, from a SOLD OUT limited edition of 15
$20,000 (including frame)

Washing J Class 605, Shaffers Crossing, Roanoke, VA, 3/19/1955.
20 x 16 inch Gelatin Silver print, printed later.
Signed in verso of print.
$18,000 (matted, unframed)

Diver, Salt Lake, Utah, 1997
20 x 24 inch Chromogenic print - printed 2005
Signed in ink in verso of print
AP Print from a SOLD OUT limited edition
$22,000 (including frame)

Dana, 1995

20x16 inch Sepia Toned Gelatin Silver print

Printed by the artist in 1995

Edition #3 of 25

Signed, dated, and editioned in white margin rector

$4,000

Boulevard D'Amiens, France, 1949.
8 7/8 x 6 7/8 inch Vintage Gelatin Silver print - Printed 1949/50.
Signed, titled, and dated verso of print
$7,500 (including framing)

In the Balance, Dinard, Brittany, France, 1993
7 7/16 x 7 7/8 inch Toned silver print, printed 1994
Print #24 from a limited edition of 45
Signed, titled, dated and edition in recto
$4,000 unframed

Frozen Fountain, Belle Isle, Detroit, Michigan, 1994
7.5 x 7.5 inch Sepia toned silver print, printed 1994.
Print #16 from a SOLD OUT edition of 45
Signed, titled, dated and edition in recto
$10,000 unframed

Three Frames of Children at Puppet Theater, Parc de Montsouris in the Tuileries, Paris, 1963
5.5 x 8.5 inch image on 16 x 20 inch Gelatin silver print
From an edition of 250
Embossed signature and editioned in ink recto; titled and dated in pencil verso
$5,000 (unframed)

Ralph Guldahl bends the shaft, NY, 1938
Image: 10.75 x 9.75 inches on 14 x 11 inch paper
Gelatin Silver print, printed 1976/77- rare print
Signed in verso of print
AP (Artist Proof) print from an edition of 10
$10,000 (matted, but unframed)

Gus Solomons, February, 1960
5 x 7 inch Vintage gelatin silver print
Unique, vintage contact print
Signed on verso
Provenance: Harold Edgerton Estate
$6,000 (framed)

NOTE: Gustave M. Solomons, Jr. received a BA in Architecture (1961) from MIT. He began dance lessons while attending MIT, and his first teacher was E. Virginia Williams, founder of the Boston Ballet Company. Upon graduation from MIT, Solomons moved to NYC, where he worked to find new experimental forms of dance by deconstructing learned structures. Today Solomons is an accomplished dancer, choreographer, dance critic, and actor. He returned to MIT in September of 2002 as an MLK Visiting Scholar, hosted by Music and Theater Arts.

Equivalent, After Stieglitz (The Rower), 1997
7 x 14 inch Platinum print - printed btwn 1997-2001
Signed and editioned in verso
Print #7 from a limited edition of 10
$15,000 framed

Milk Drop Coronet, 1957
20 x 16 inch Dye Transfer print
Printed 1984 or 85.
Signed in verso of print
$15,000 (including framing)

Milk Drop, after Edgerton (from Pictures of Chocolate), 1997
24 x 20 inch Cibachrome print - printed btwn 1997-2001
Print #3 from a SOLD OUT limited edition of 10
Signed and editioned in verso of Sintra mount
$25,000 (including framing)

Beggar IV, (from Beggars after Rembrandt), 2001
24 x 20 inch Gelatin Silver Print - Printed in 2001.
Print #6 from a SOLD OUT limited edition of 10.
Signed in verso of print.
$18,000 (including framing)

NOTE: During his life, Rembrandt made a number of paintings and etchings of beggars, finally producing a portrait of himself as a beggar in 1630. For his Beggars project, Vik Muniz has recreated two of these Rembrandt etchings using small arrangements of straight pins, staples, wire, needles, paper clips and nails that are then photographed and enlarged. Where there was crosshatching, Muniz has stacked layers of pins and nails. The optical trickery is witty and satisfying — the vivacity and strength of Rembrandt’s line expressed through banal hardware fragments.

Georgia O’Keeffe, 1946
2.25 x 2.25 inch contact print
Vintage Gelatin Silver print, printed c. 1946
Signed verso of print
$3,000 framed

NOTE: this image was photographed through the frame, thus the reason for the reflectivity and yellow hue.
Black remained her favorite color throughout O’Keeffe’s life. Her reason was described in one article in 1929: ”She wears black almost invariably – not, she says, because she prefers it, but because, if she started picking out colours for dresses, she would have no time for painting.”

Detroit (telephone wires), 1945
9.75 x 8 inch Gelatin Silver print - printed later
Signed recto of print
$20,000 framed

Human Form, 1965
8 x 10 inch Vintage gelatin silver print - printed 1965.
Signed verso of print
$6,000 framed

Audrey Hepburn on the set of "Sabrina", 1954 (Photographed for LIFE Magazine)
14 x 11 inch Gelatin silver print - printed circa 2000
Estate stamped and authenticated by the artist’s son, David Shaw, in verso of print
Edition of 15 - AP print.
$2,500 (unframed)

Hermosa Beach Pier, CA, 1939
30 x 40 inch Continuous Tone Digital Print
Posthumously printed 2004
Estate stamped in verso
$4,000 (including framing)

NOTE: In high school in California, Don James, joined a very small and under appreciated community of surfers in the 1930s. He started photographing his friends and other surfers from the onset and continued for decades, even once he became a dentist. He is widely regarded as being one of the two earliest known surfing photographers, second to his Hawaiian counterpart, Tom Blake.

Muhammad Ali "training" under water, Miami, 1961
14 x 11 inch Gelatin silver print, printed c. 2000
Signed verso
$10,000 framed

Butlin’s Holiday Camp, Scarborough, 1968
6 1/4 x 9 5/16 inch Vintage gelatin silver print
Blindstamped in recto
$14,000 framed

1001 Gesichter (1001 Faces), 1957.
12 x 9 inch Gelatin Silver print - printed 1980s
Signed, titled, dated in verso of print
$18,000 (framed)

Lost Dog, 1994
15 x 15 inch Gelatin silver print, printed later
Signed, titled, dated, and editioned in verso of print
Print #30 from a limited edition of 50
$3,000 framed

Untitled #93, 1999
50 x 40 inch Cibachrome print
Print #1 from a limited edition of 5
Signed, titled, dated, editioned verso
$14,000 framed (Face mounted to plexi, black painted wood frame)

Untitled #202, 2001
50 x 40 inch Cibachrome print
Print #1 from a limited edition of 5
Signed, titled, dated, editioned verso
Back mounted to aluminum, framed with Denglas. black painted wood frame
$14,000 framed

Untitled #164, 2000
50 x 40 inch Cibachrome print
Print #2 from a limited edition of 5
Signed, titled, dated, editioned verso
Back mounted to aluminum, framed with Denglas, black painted wood frame
$14,000 framed

Fondamenta Contarini, Venice, Italy, 2003
21 x 10 inch Toned Gelatin silver print
Signed, titled, dated, and editioned, in pencil, on mount recto
Print #4 from a limited edition of 15
$4,500 framed

Fondamenta della Misericordia, Venice, Italy, 2003
21 x 10 inch Toned Gelatin silver print, printed 2005
Signed, titled, dated, and editioned, in pencil, on mount recto
Print #4 from a limited edition of 15
$4,500 framed

Johnny Cash (Flipping the Bird), San Quentin Prison, 1969
16 x 20 inch Gelatin silver print, printed later.
Signed in verso
$7,500 (unframed)

Jennifer’s Kitchen, from the About 30 series

Printed in 2003

30 x 40 inch Lightjet print

Signed, titled, dated, and editioned in verso

From an Edition of 5, this is an AP print

$4,000 (framed)

Untitled, from the series, About 30, NY (Cadillac Dog), 2004
20 x 24 inch Chromogenic print
Signed, titled, dated, and editioned in verso of print
AP print from an limited edition of 10
$6,000 (unframed)

NOTE: In “About 30,” the series captures Los Angeles women - all in their mid-30s, all friends of the photographer - who invited Gail to accompany them in their daily activities: yoga, pedicures and trips to the beach, parties for their kids and each other. Time and mortality are the deep echoing themes of these photographs – the end of 20s, the beginning of 30s, the end of innocence and realization of impermanence.

Cabbagetown (girl walking up road), from the series, Smoke, 1998

Printed by the photographer in 1998

9.5x9.25 inch Gelatin Silver Print

Signed in verso of print

$2,000 unframed

Cabbagetown, Atlanta (boy on porch), from the series, Smoke, 1997

Printed by the photographer in 1997

7.75 x 7.75 inch Gelatin Silver print

Signed in verso of print

$2,000