SANDY SKOGLUND'S RETURN OF THE GOLDFISH FROM THE KULCHUR QUEEN COLLECTION SELLS FOR $10,625 IN DOYLE NEW YORK'S NOVEMBER 3, 2008 PHOTOGRAPHS AUCTION

Competition for Works by Duane Michals, Lynn Davis, Bert Stern, Barbara Morgan and Philippe Halsman

Doyle New York held an inaugural sale of Photographs on November 3, 2008. Buyers demonstrated their willingness to bid strongly for iconic and blue-chip photographs, as well as for items which appear less frequently on the market. The featured lot of the sale, Revenge of the Goldfish by Sandy Skoglund, from the Kulchur Queen Collection, sold for $10,625. Contemporary photography in general was strong, with Duane Michals's Mistaken Identity selling for $5,625, Lynn Davis's Untitled [Seascape] for $3,125, Bert Stern's Marilyn Monroe for $2,250, Philippe Halsman's portfolio of Warhol photographs for $1,700, as well as excellent prices for David Hockney and Michael Kenna.

High points of classic 20th century photography included images by Margaret Bourke-White, Weegee, Garry Winogrand, Ansel Adams, and Barbara Morgan, several of which sold above their estimates. The photographic archives in the sale were of interest to buyers, with the Max Ewing collection selling at $1,375 against an estimate of $600-900 and the Joseph Urban documentation at $1,750.

Early photography also proved to be generally popular. A collection of Union Cases sold for $2,500 and the iconic Kaloma image fetched $1,063 against an estimate of $800-1,200. A panoramic view of Wyoming and a family portrait by the colonial Mexican photographer Francois Aubert both exceeded their high estimates.

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A SELECTION OF AUCTION HIGHLIGHTS

	Lot 3215 SANDY SKOGLUND Revenge of the Goldfish Cibachrome print, signed, numbered 16/30 and dated 1980 (but marked "Copyright 1981") by Skoglund on the reverse; image 30 x 37 1/2 inches (762 x 952 mm). From the Kulchur Queen Collection Sold for $10,625
	Lot 3186 DUANE MICHALS Mistaken Identity A sequence of 11 gelatin silver prints, with text running underneath each image apparently handwritten by Michals, signed and numbered 4/25 by the artist in the margin of the last print; images 3 1/4 x 5 inches (90 x 127 mm). Sold for $5,625
	Lot 3149 LYNN DAVIS Untitled [Seascape] Gelatin silver print, signed, numbered 1/10 and dated 1994 by Davis on the reverse; image 31 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches (800 x 800 mm). Reportedly, this beautiful and sombre image was created after the death of the artist's son. Sold for $3,125
	Lot 3235 [UNION CASES] A collection of 43 Union cases, many with daguerreotypes or tintypes still present. The cases exhibit a wide variety of styles and materials. Not all the cases have their original contents (and a few appear never to have been used), but there are a total of 38 images in all in the collection (including a few housed in double cases). These range from full-plate to sixteenth-plate. Materials used include card, velvet, leather, papier-mache, plastic, mother-of-pearl, etc. The collection is broadly representative of the history and development of the Union case, and includes a number of designs that are either identical to, or derived from, those in Floyd and Marion Rinhart's standard work on the subject, American Miniature Case Art, a copy of which is included in the lot. Sold for $2,500
	Lot 3224 BERT STERN Marilyn Monroe Chromogenic print, undated, signed and numbered 162/250 by the photographer in the lower margin; image 19 x 18 1/2 inches (482 x 470 mm). Signature (and possibly image) slightly faded. Sold for $2,250
	Lot 3190 BARBARA MORGAN Martha Graham: Letter to the World (Kick) Gelatin silver print, printed in 1980 from the original negative of 1940, signed "Barbara Morgan 1940" beneath image, and additionally signed, titled and dated 1980 by Morgan on the reverse; image 18 1/4 x 13 7/8 inches (462 x 351 mm). Sold for $2,250
	Lot 3158 PHILLIPE HALSMAN Halsman Photographs Warhol [Cover title from portfolio]. N.p. [New York]: Nahan Galleries, n.d. [1980] Set number 13 of 100, each print numbered on the rear. Large leatherette portfolio, 21 3/4 inches (55 cm), stamped in gilt as above, containing 8 C-prints of Andy Warhol and (in one instance) the members of The Factory; in various sizes. Each print is stamped both "Photo by Philippe Halsman" and "Yvonne Halsman" on the reverse, as well as additionally signed and numbered in ink by Yvonne Halsman. The prints are all in the publisher's mounts. These photographs were taken by Halsman in the sixties, and issued together posthumously under the direction of his widow. Sold for $2,125