Recent Auctions: Unidentified Photographer’s Untitled Contact Sheet

Unidentified Photographer

Sold for: $49.95

From the auction listing:

WEEGEE Original Contact Photo Print Sheet Includes Arthur Fellig Photograph

This auction is for an original 8 by 10 inch contact print sheet made by famous celebrity newspaper photographer Arthur Fellig (WEEGEE). One of the images shows WEEGEE nibbling on the ear of a beautiful woman.

THIS ITEM comes from the estate of Peter Martin who was a close friend of WEEGEE and was the publisher of several photo magazines during the early 1950s. Martin’s photo studio in the Greenwich Village section of New York City was a meeting place for many famous & aspiring photographers of the time.