5016 - 5218 FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHS
= Nice collection, streetscenes and landscapes, i.a. Nagasaki (5x), "To Look over Biwa Lake and Seta Bridge", "Wayside resting place" (Two women cooking), "Hozu-Rapids", "Moto Hakone" (Fishing boats on a lake), "100 steps Temple, Osuwa" and "Kouzo" (Two men with rickshaws on the road).
= Nice collection, streetscenes and landscapes, mostly (26x) of the Temple Nikko.
- Partly sl. foxed/ faded impressions.
= I.a. "B 57, 100 stone steps, Yokohama", "B. 209 Inasa, Nagasaki", "Marriage", "Ginza Tokio", "B 403 Suspension Bridge Fujikawa", "U 55 Oji, Tokio", "C 37 Millinery Shop" and temples (8x, all uncol.).
- Partly (sl.) faded.
= Nice collection, comprising i.a. studio photographs, in the style of K. Kimbei or F. Beato, elegantly handcoloured, i.a. "180. Dressing"; "236. Reading a book"; "49. Kago, travelling chair"; "269. Shell-Picking"; "310. Tea Party"; "C 8. Spinning silk"; "C 25. Cleaning the rice plant"; "238. Bamboo Grove" and "156. Whispering".
= Mostly views of Kyoto and Nikko.
- Some mounted; the snapshots partly w. remains of mount of verso.
= Nice collection, i.a. by N. Hikita (Kanbe), Hiramatsa, T. Shibuya, E. Suzuki, S. Terasaka and B. Yamasaki.
= With an unidentied copyright stamp on verso.
= Fine, famous and rare group portrait, showing (from left to right) Eduard Waldraff, Max Ackermann, Bertel Schleicher, Julius Herburger, Piet Zwart, Enrico Prampolini, Willy Baumeister, Ida Thal-Hackmuller, Sotjia Rovelli, Zlatko Neumann, Adolf Loos, Piet Mondriaan and Michel Seuphor. Verso SIGNED by 6 of the portrayed artists: Piet Zwart, Ida Thal, Zlatko Neumann, Adolfl Loos, Piet Mondriaan and Michel Seuphor. Provenance: the collection of Kees Broos and Liesbeth Brandt Corstius. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLV.
- Lid sl. scratched; bottom of box w. plastic shrinkwrap still sticking to it. Otherwise fine.
= SIGNED and blindst. copy of the DELUXE EDITION, kept in orig. perspex box w. sliding lid, together w. 6 original photographs, each ±18x23 cm., all w. the photographer's blindstamp and signed "N. Koster 2/4 EA" in black felt tip pen, under passepartouts. Prints of the unearthed lost negatives of the photographs taken by Nico Koster at a private session with John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their stay at the Hilton Hotel Amsterdam, where the couple spent their honeymoon in bed to make an artistic plea for peace during the war in Vietnam. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVI.
- Trifle yellowed; vague fold in upper left corner.
= Dated "1944" in pencil and "44" in red pencil on verso. This lot is subject to 4% resale royalties ('droit de suite') over the total amount of hammerprice and buyer's premium. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLII.