Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Christer Almqvist wrote: > >> There were six >> Cartier-Bresson prints generally selling for two-three thousand marks each. > >It's incredibly cheap. An original print from HCB costs between 6000 to 9000 >marks when you order it. Did they say if the prints were signed and stamped by >HCB? > ....and I quote from the catalogue (abbreviated) Lot 1145: HCB portrait of Francis Bacon, 50s, later silver gelatine print, embossed © HCB, signed in black ink HCB (sold for 2400DM) Lot 1146: Gunter Sachs, 50s, vintage,silver gelatine print, blue © HCB stamp and red archive stamp from a weekly magazine (sold for 3200DM) Lot 1147: No title, 50s, later silver gelatine print, embossed © HCB, signed HCB in black ink with dedication (I did not make a note of the price) Lot 1148: Iran, 60s, vintage silver gelatine print, blue stamp on back HCB and two other stamp from the Presse-Agentur L Dukas, Zürich (I did not make a note of the price) Lot 1149: India, otherwise as 1148 (I did not make a note of the price) Lot 1150: India, otherwise as 1148 (sold for 2300 DM)