Name: WEEGEE (1899–1968)
Brand: Weegee Portfolio
Price: 20000.00 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

WEEGEE (1899–1968)
Weegee Portfolio
New York: The Weegee Collection, 1982. Images from 1936-1952. Portfolio of forty-five gelatin silver prints, printed 1982 by Sid Kaplan; each blindstamped 'The Weegee Collection' (margin); each numbered sequentially '1-45' and '12' in an unknown hand in pencil (verso); each image approximately 16 x 12 5/8 in. (40.6 x 32.1 cm.) or the inverse; each sheet 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.7 cm.) or the inverse; together with printed title page with number '12' in ink, foreword by Louis Stettner and plate list; number twelve from a projected edition of twenty numbered copies and six hors serie; contained in gray cloth covered clamshell box with black lettering.

Acquired from a private collection;
by descent to the present owner.

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The titles are as follows:

1. U.S. Hotel
2. Performers at Sammy's-on-the-Bowery, 1944-45
3. Bagel Man, Second Avenue, 1940
4. Crowd at Coney Island, July 28, 1940
5. Police Helping Wife of Murdered Man, 1938
6. Lovers on Park Bench
7. Peddler with Dangling Dry Goods
8. 10 Shots, 10 Cents
9. Passage to Pennsylvania Hotel
10. Human Cannon Ball, 1952
11. Religious Men in Restaurant, 1943
12. Lovers with 3-D Glasses at the Palace Theater (Infrared), 1943
13. Two Young Girls at the Palace Theatre (Infrared), 1943
14. Summer, The Lower Each Side, 1937
15. Mother and Baby in front of Yiddish Theatre
16. Woman with Violin Rescued from Fire
17. Clothing Has Been Saved, 1945
18. Tenement Fire, Harlem, 1942
19. Line-Up for Night Court
20. Mother and Child through Broken Window, Harlem, 1939
21. Soldiers in front of Metropolitan Opera, 1943
22. Rehearsal, Metropolitan Opera, 1943
23. Corpse with Revolver, 1940
24. To Hats at the Opera, 1943
25. The Critic, 1943. Mrs. Cavanaugh and friend entering the opera
26. Alfred Stieglitz
27. Booked on Suspicion of Killing a Policeman, 1939
28. Teen-age Boy Arrested for Strangling a little Girl, 1944
29. Burlesque Queen, Transvestite in Paddy Wagon, 1941
30. Joy of Living, Accident n 42nd Street and 3rd Avenue, 1946
31. Easter Sunday in Harlem, 1940
32. Simply Add Boiling Water
33. Two Men Covering Faces in Police Wagon
34. Murdered While Playing Bocci, 1938
35. Under the Third Avenue El, 1938
36. Heatspell, 1938
37. Transvestite in Fur Coat Leaving Paddy Wagon
38. Sleeping Circus People, Madison Square Garden, 1944
39. Mending Coney Island, 1940
40. The Ambulance Will Come, 1940
41. Last Rites
42. Vegetable Peddler with Horse, 1946
43. Little Italy, War Rally
44. Woman with Broken Umbrella
45. New Year's Eve at Sammy's-on-the-Bowery, 1943