Swann Auction Galleries – PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF FILMMAKER GARY WINICK / 19TH & 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS & PHOTOBOOKS
March 19th, 2012 by adminFilm producer and director Gary Winick died last year at the age of 49 and left behind collections of photographs, fine art prints, move posters, books, and personal memorabilia.
Highlights from the collection include:
Photographs by William Eggleston, Harry Callahan, Walker Evans and others, including Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Swan lake, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, silver print, 1954, printed 1980s, shown top left.
Prints and drawings, including Shoe Design for Redbook Magazine by Andy Warhol, gouache, circa 1955.
Movie posters, over 20 posters for Hitchcock films like Vertigo and other classics.
The afternoon session of 19th & 20th Century Photographs & Photobooks features vintage photographs by Edward S. Curtis (Chief of the Desert, Navajo Orotone, 1904, shown left,) Stieglitz, Wilson A. Bentley and others.
Among the photobooks, Robert Frank’s The Americans, first American edition, New York, 1959.