Auctions! Christie’s, Feb. 20, 2008

Christie’s
Feb. 20, 2008

1. The Slumber Hour, Scrubwoman at 20 Wall St. Tower, Midnight, 1945
$5,625
gelatin silver print
‘Weegee from Photo-Representatives’ credit stamp (on the verso)
13 5/8 x 10¾in. (34.5 x 27.2cm.)

2. All Night Mission, Bowery, 1940
$2000
gelatin silver print
‘Photo by Weegee’ credit stamp and agency copyright credit reproduction limitation label affixed (on the verso); exhibition label affixed (on the mat)
10¼ x 13½in. (26 x 34.2cm.)

3. Hedda Hopper, 1948
$2,500
gelatin silver print
‘ABC Press’, ‘Atlantic Press’ and ‘Weegee from Photo-Representatives’ copyright credit stamps (on the verso)
9½ x 7¾in. (24 x 19.6cm.)

4. Nazi in Yorkville, who ran for Congress, was committed to Bellevue, c. 1941
$1,875
gelatin silver print
titled in ink and ‘5 Center Market Place’ copyright credit stamps (on the verso)
13½ x 10½in. (34.2 x 26.5cm.)

5. The Critic (Mrs. Leonora Warner & her mother, Mrs. George Washington Cavanaugh attending opening night at the Metropolitan Opera), 1943
$6,875
gelatin silver print
‘451 W. 47th Street’ credit stamp (on the verso)
7¼ x 8¼in. (18.3 x 20.8cm.)

(The above is from Christie’s web site, wee won’t correct all the mistakes, like the absurd parenthetical title of The Critic…)

That was an absurd price to pay The Critic, it looked like a potentially posthumous print, perhaps from a copy negative, definitely printed after 1961…