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- Estimate
- $30,000–$50,000 hammer
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Phillips — Photographs, New York · 4 October 2018
- Record ID
- TB-2026-245207
- Record
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Peter Beard, I'll Write Whenever I Can, Koobi Fora, Lake Rudolf, Kenya. Phillips, 4 Oct 2018, lot 288. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-245207.
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Peter Beard, I'll Write Whenever I Can, Koobi Fora, Lake Rudolf, Kenya. Phillips, 4 Oct 2018, lot 288. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-245207.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Untitled (shadows, woman with handbag) | Lisette Model | $5,000–$7,000 | |
| Looking Across Sheep Meadow Toward Central Park South, New York City | Ruth Orkin | $2,500–$3,500 | |
| New York at Night | Berenice Abbott | $6,000–$8,000 | |
| An English girl in her dressing room at the Folies-Bergère | Brassaï | $4,000–$6,000 | |
| Marguerite Griffin, Storyville, New Orleans | E.j. Bellocq | $10,000–$15,000 | |
| Self-portrait, Paris | André Kertész | $7,000–$9,000 |
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