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modern and contemporary prints, art and photobooks Peter Harrington london We are exhibiting at these fairs: Christmas 2018 opening hours: 1–2 February 2019 Fulham Road pasadena Rare Books LA Mon 26 Nov – Sat 22 Dec Pasadena Convention Center Mon–Thu: 10am–7pm Fri & Sat: 10am–6pm 300 East Green Street Sun: closed Pasadena, CA 91101 Sun 23 Dec – Wed 26 Dec: closed 8–10 February Thu 27 Dec – Sat 29 Dec: 10am–6pm Sun 30 Dec – Tue 1 Jan 2019: closed oakland 52nd California International Antiquarian Book Fair Wed 2 Jan 2019: Normal business Oakland Marriott City Center hours resume Oakland, CA 94607 Dover Street www.cabookfair.com Mon 26 Nov – Sat 22 Dec 7–10 March Mon–Fri: 10am–7pm new york Sat: 10am–6pm Sun: closed Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue Sun 23 Dec – Tue 1 Jan 2019: closed New York, NY 10065 www.nyantiquarianbookfair.com 25–28 April london London Original Print Fair Royal Academy of Arts Piccadilly, w1j obd www.londonoriginalprintfair.com Front cover: Coloured Greys [2]; Bridget Riley, item 63; back cover: Lightness of Being [Queen Elizabeth II.], Chris Levine, item 44. Design: Nigel Bents; Photography: Ruth Segarra 2 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington Modern and contemporary prints, art and photobooks All items from this catalogue are on display at Fulham Road chelsea mayfair Peter Harrington Peter Harrington 100 FulHam road 43 dover street london sw3 6Hs london w1s 4FF uk 020 7591 0220 uk 020 3763 3220 eu 00 44 20 7591 0220 eu 00 44 20 3763 3220 usa 011 44 20 7591 0220 www.peterharringtongallery.co.uk usa 011 44 20 3763 3220 VAT no. gb 701 5578 50 Peter Harrington Limited. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133–137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 7JY. Registered in England and Wales No: 3609982 1 (Muhammad Ali) David King Portrait II. London: Fior Photos, 1999 Silver gelatine photograph hand printed by Mike Spry at Downtown Darkroom. Sheet size: 50.5 × 60.7 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in a black wooden frame with conservation acrylic glazing. photographer’s proof aside from the edition of 25. Inscribed on the verso in pencil by King, “Muhammad Ali, Photograph by David King, 1974 -> 1999, photographer’s proof ”. David King’s photographs of Ali were taken in 1974 at his training camp in Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, when he was preparing for his world heavyweight title fight against George Foreman, held later that year in Kinshasa, Zaire, known as the “Rumble in the Jungle”. King documented everything in the lead up to the fight, from the intense sparring sessions to the quiet times he spent with his family and friends. King’s biography, I Am King: A Photographic Biography of Muhammad Ali, was published by Penguin in 1975. £1,750 [124640] 2 (Muhammad Ali) David King Portrait III. London: Fior Photos, 1999 Silver gelatine photograph hand printed by Mike Spry at Downtown Darkroom. Sheet size: 50.5 × 60.7 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in a black lacquer frame with conservation acrylic glazing. photographer’s proof aside from the edition of 25. Inscribed on the verso in pencil by King, “Muhammad Ali, Photograph by David King, 1974 -> 1999, photographer’s proof ”. £1,750 [124639] 3 (Muhammad Ali) David King Portrait V. London: Fior Photos, 1999 Silver gelatine photograph hand printed by Mike Spry at Downtown Darkroom. Sheet size: 50.5 × 60.7 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in a black lacquer frame with conservation acrylic glazing. one of an edition of 25, signed and numbered on the verso by king. £1,750 [124636] 2 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 4 photographer’s proof aside from the edition of 25. Inscribed on the verso in pencil by King, “Muhammad Ali, (Muhammad Ali) David King Photograph by David King, 1974 -> 1999, photographer’s proof ”. Ali’s Back. London: Fior Photos, 1999 £1,750 [124641] Silver gelatine photograph hand printed by Mike Spry at Downtown Darkroom. Sheet size: 50.5 × 60.7 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in a black wooden frame with conservation acrylic glazing. All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 3 4 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 5 Francis Bacon Three Studies of the Male Back. Paris: Michael Peppiatt for Art International, 1987 Three lithographs in colour on Arches wove paper. Image sizes: 60.5 × 45 cm. Sheet sizes: 80.8 × 59 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in three grey wash wooden frames with conservation acrylic glazing. signed limited edition, number 20 of 99 prints, each plate signed by Bacon lower right in pencil, and numbered lower left. This triptych is after an oil on canvas executed in 1970 depicting Bacon’s lover George Dyer sitting in front of a mirror. Sabatier 21. £50,000 [129709] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 5 6 Banksy Monkey Queen. London: Pictures on Walls, 2004 3 colour screenprint on wove paper. Sheet size: 50 × 35 cm. Excellent condition. Presented float mounted in a white wooden frame with conservation acrylic glazing by Darbyshire. signed limited edition, number 468 from an edition of 750. This work is accompanied with a Pest Control authentication certificate. £12,500 [127738] 7 Banksy Soup Can (Original). London: Pictures on Walls, 2005 5 colour screenprint on wove paper. Sheet size: 50 × 35 cm. Small amount of stray silver ink to extreme top edge as published otherwise in excellent condition. Presented float mounted in a handmade white gold leaf frame with acrylic glazing. signed limited edition, number 38 of 50, signed and dated by Banksy lower right, numbered lower left, with Pictures on Walls blind stamp lower left. This work is accompanied by a Pest Control authentication certificate. £27,500 [127735] 6 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 7 8 9 Peter Beard Cecil Beaton [Title in Japanese:] The Last Word from Paradise. Tokyo: Cecil Beaton’s Scrapbook. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1937 Shueisha, 1979 Quarto. Yellow cloth-backed floral wallpaper boards with green cloth tips, Quarto. Original white glossy paper covered boards, titles to spine and front spine lettered in red, floral wallpaper endpapers. With the dust jacket. board brown, pictorial map front endpapers, photographic rear endpapers. Illustrated throughout, printed in blue and black on white and pink paper. With the photographic dust jacket. With black and white photographs Many halftone photographic reproductions. Tiny discolouration at base throughout, some folding. A near-fine copy in the lightly rubbed jacket. of boards, some very faint foxing to contents, else a very good copy in the scarce dust jacket, chipped at extremities and to spine panel. first edition. It was published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name, held at the Seibu Museum of Art in Tokyo in March first edition. Featuring 34 studies on a wide variety of subjects, and April 1979. it was published in September 1937 to a fanfare of publicity over the inclusion of articles on the private lives of Hollywood film stars. It was £600 [129888] published at the height of Beaton’s pre-war fame, and followed shortly after his two famous commissions for Wallis Simpson that year: her pre-wedding Vogue photoshoot in the scandalous “lobster” dress and the formal photographs of her wedding to the Duke of Windsor. £750 [126551] 8 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 10 11 Burton Y. Berry Werner Bischof Teenage Styles and Trends 1967–71. A Retrospect. Lucerne: 24 Photographies. Avec une introduction de Manuel Gasser. Privately printed by C. J. Bucher Ltd., 1972 Bern: L. M. Kohler, 1946 Quarto. Original photographic boards, titles to front board in white. With Quarto. Publisher’s original white cloth-backed paper on boards portfolio, the original brown paper wrapper with Teenage printed in black to one edge. cloth ties, titles to front board in white. With 1 plate mounted to front cover Housed in a silver flat-back cloth box with black lettering by the Chelsea of portfolio and 23 loose black and white plates housed inside. Just a hint of Bindery. 63 full-paged black and white photographs. Spine just a touch rubbing to extremities of plates. Near-fine in the lightly rubbed and slightly rolled. An excellent copy. soiled portfolio. first edition, with the scarce wrapper. A collection of first edition, first printing, featuring 24 photographs by the photographs taken by retired American diplomat Burton Yost Berry award-winning Swiss photographer and photojournalist. With an in metropolitan cities worldwide in an attempt to capture the fashion introduction by Manuel Gasser on a folded sheet. of the “in” crowd. £750 [128751] Parr & Badger III, pp. 77 & 80. £5,000 [123974] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 9 12 (Black Panthers; Huey P. Newton) Bill Olive Happy Birthday, Huey P. Newton ’69. Los Angeles: Earl Newman Posters, 1969 Screen print on heavy wove paper. Sheet size: 89 × 58.5 cm. Presented in a hand-finished black frame with conservation acrylic glazing. Small amount of ink loss due to a printing fault in the screen printing process to extreme left edge otherwise in excellent condition. Psychedelic poster celebrating the birthday of Huey P. Newton (1942–1989), the political and urban activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966 with Bobby Seale. Initially the Panthers were a community and grassroots organization seeking to break the cycle of poverty, drug abuse, and crime in the Bay Area; they became famous for organizing free breakfasts for schoolchildren. After Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in April 1968, some of the black community questioned the strategy of non-violent resistance and political agitation, favouring rhetoric and programmes that promoted African American separatism as well as the use of violence to obtain it.