WEEGEE (1899-1968)
Summer, the Lower East Side, c. 1937
or
WEEGEE (1899-1968)
Summer, Upper West Side, 1946
Gelatin silver print
West 47th Street and ‘Weegee the Famous’ credit stamps (on verso)
10 3/8 x 13 1/8in
Sold for: $20,000
(Estimate $5,000 – $7,000)
Sale 2407 Lot 151
Christies
Selections from the Baio Collection of Photography
April 15, 2010
…from the Internet auction grave.
On March 27th, 2011, this photo sold for $460.00.
Wee wrote about it here
On June 12th, 2011, the same photo sold for $138.27.
(Unfortunately some of the writing on the back was erased…)
Interestingly, this image is only a small portion, an 8th perhaps, of the entire 4×5 negative…
Wee saw this photo recently at an online auction…
It sold for $1,118.99.
Wee don’t think that it was made by Weegee… It’s Weegee-esque, but doesn’t have the usual marks, stamps, etc… We’re searching for the publication…
[Editors note: Five years ago we were very skeptical about the attribution of many photos that were allegedly made by Weegee… Now we would probably write something like: this photo was probably made by Weegee… 01/2016]
(screen grab from the Internet)
5/8ths sold
7/8ths distorted
(screen grabs from the Internet)
$32,500
Christies, April 7, 2011
(screen grabs from the Internet)
$47, 500
Christies, April 7, 2011
(sure it’s an amazing photo… nevertheless, thought the price was a typo…)
Sold for $444.00
02/07/2011
1943
Sold for $460.00
03/27/2011
(ca. 1950 not 1963)
Weegee, The Eyes Have It, 1953
…on Monday December 13, 2010, in an Internet auction.
This photo (the original was not made by Weegee) is from the first Jersey Joe Walcott vs. Rocky Marciano fight in Philadelphia, on Sept. 23, 1952. It was a knockout in the 13th round.
The verso of this photo references the rematch in Chicago, on May 15, 1953… again, a knockout, this time in the first round.
Surprisingly there are a lot of boxing videos on youtube, the final three rounds of first fight can be seen here, and the short second fight can be seen here…
(Spoiler alert: the undefeated, 30 year old, Rocky wins both fights, against the 38 year old Jersey Joe, and they are truly disturbing…)
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the videos are the beautiful press cameras circling the perimeter of the ring…
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the photo is the verso. It’s useful to have a definitive date for this photo and to know that UPI was distributing Weegee’s photos in the Spring of 1953…
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