Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale
Lewis Baltz
Candlestick Point
Auction Closed
May 1, 11:36 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 90,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Lewis Baltz
1945 - 2014
Candlestick Point
(San Francisco: self-published, 1988, an edition of 21 and 2 artist's proofs), a portfolio of 84 photographs, comprising 72 silver prints and 12 chromogenic prints, all but the first print signed, each dated, editioned '20/21,' and numbered sequentially 'CP1' through 'CP84' in pencil or ink on the reverse, each framed, 1984-88, printed in 1988; together with the printed title, dedication, introduction, and colophon, signed, dated, inscribed 'For Jack,' and editioned in pencil. 4to, black cloth clamshell box with stamped metallic-red lettering and matching slipcase
each image: 6⅝ by 9 in. (16.8 by 22.9 cm.)
each frame: 8⅝ by 10⅝ in. (21.9 by 27 cm.)
portfolio: 15 by 11 in. (38.1 by 27.9 cm.)
Photographers Looking at Photographs: 75 Pictures from the Pilara Foundation (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), p. 105 (these prints)
Lewis Baltz, Candlestick Point (Tokyo and New York: Gallery Min and Aperture, 1989)
Lewis Baltz, Common Objects (Paris and Göttingen, 2014), unpaginated
Lewis Baltz (Fundación MAPFRE, 2017), pp. 195-218
San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, The Grain of the Present, April 2017 – March 2018