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- Estimate
- $12,000–$18,000 hammer
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Photographs, New York · 5 April 2013
- Dimensions
- image: 14½ x 18¼in. (37.3 x 46.8cm.)
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4438221
- Record
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W. Eugene Smith, Guardia Civil, 1951. Christie's, 5 Apr 2013, lot 129. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4438221.
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W. Eugene Smith, Guardia Civil, 1951. Christie's, 5 Apr 2013, lot 129. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4438221.
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| Hall of Thirty-three Bays, 1995 | Hiroshi Sugimoto | $12,000–$18,000 | |
| Dutch Details | Edward Ruscha | $8,000–$12,000 | |
| Chicago, 1958 | Harry Callahan | $10,000–$15,000 | |
| Washington, D.C., 1964 | Ray Metzker | $8,000–$12,000 | |
| Venice, Louisiana, 2003, from 'Sleeping by the Mississippi' | Alec Soth | $8,000–$12,000 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| W. Eugene Smith | Tomoko in Bath, Minamata, Japan | $12,700 | Phillips, Oct 2024 | |
| W. Eugene Smith | A Walk to Paradise Garden | Bonhams, Oct 2020 | ||
| W. Eugene Smith | dr. albert schweitzer from man of mercy essay | Sotheby's, Apr 2013 | ||
| W. Eugene Smith | 'minamata - tomoko and mother' | Sotheby's, Oct 2018 | ||
| W. Eugene Smith | Three Generations of Miners. A Welsh Coal-Mining Town, Wales | Phillips, Apr 2024 | ||
| W. Eugene Smith | 'Walk to Paradise Garden' | Bonhams, Mar 2025 | ||
| W. Eugene Smith | Welsh Miners | Lempertz, Dec 2020 | ||
| W. Eugene Smith | 'the spinner' (from spanish village essay) | Sotheby's, Oct 2004 |
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