David Douglas Duncan photolithography

Own this big photolithography from Davis Douglas Duncan for a long time now and is pencil signed by him . One found on the net https://collections.lacma.org/node/244206

But would like to sell it and need a price that's suitable for this print . So anybody any link to a other similar signed print by him at auction or so ? Thanks

 

Here I found a lot of work from auctions that are now closed. Not sure how to access them further, but perhaps it can help?
http://www.artnet.com/artists/david-douglas-duncan/

 

Thanks and going to have a look how to find out the prices asked and paid in the auctions to get a price for mine .

 

Here are the sold search results for prints on liveauctioneers. It's free to join. Perhaps this will be helpful in your search.

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/sea...s duncan print&sort=-relevance&status=archive​

 

Oh! He was Picasso's photographer!

@lloyd249

 

Yes he was but what to ask for my art work now ? have not found the same one signed or not signed yet

 

@lloyd249 , could you please shed any light on Picasso's photographer?

 

i will look into it for sure but picasso had photographer up the wazoo filming and taking pictures of his every move so i have read and if you watch his video's you can see he drew a crowd every time he walked down the street ,i found this also just now

The most famous visual artist of the 20th century, Picasso was also the most photographed. Thanks to the camera, his striking features became iconic, recognized the world over. Yet this phenomenon was not a mere by-product of celebrity; his own photographic practice set the precedent. Picasso engaged with photography and photographers in myriad ways, starting from his early days in Paris and continuing through the last years of his life. He used the camera to capture life in the studio and at home, to try out new ideas, to study his works and document their creation, and to shape his own image as an artist at work.

As the exhibition details, he collaborated with photographers Brassaï and Andre Villers to create wholly original works. He filmed home movies of his family and friends while also working with filmmakers such as Luciano Emmer and Henri-Georges Clouzot to capture his creative process. His life and work were documented by photographers as diverse as Jean Cocteau, Cecil Beaton, Man Ray, Lee Miller, Edward Quinn, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Lucien Clergue, Michel Sima, and Arnold Newman. The resulting body of photographs and films, filled with fact, invention and myth, is vital to an understanding of Picasso’s achievements across his entire artistic output. As Picasso said to one of his favorite photographers Brassaï, “…I want to leave as complete a record as possible for posterity.”

The record is not only complete but full of endless insights into the nature of creativity and artistic expression.

 

@lloyd249 , Thank you so much for checking in on this thread, and please keep your eyes open for two things: 1) At what point in Davis's career did he make "pretty" color photolithographs, to sell as art (I suspect it would have been in the early part of his photography career and we may find @gerspee 's picture resides in this era); and 2) if Davis ever took a photo of your chair!

Gerspee, It may not be so difficult to date your picture, by searching the styles of Davis's years of work. Is there anything at all on the back? -Perhaps a frame shop label pasted over a paper backing? The frame looks very 1970s and perhaps made in Mexico, is that a chip in the frame? It looks to be the type that was painted red with gold on top? Is that what I am seeing?

I will continue to look around for Davis's photolitho works, now that I am aware of yours. It's quite beautiful. Thank you for posting it!

 

i have one of the books published by David on picasso , it's not worth a whole lot , but it's not signed either , it's not picasso in this picture so i think the value would be in the signature. i would think that between a unsigned print and a autographed book the value of yours would fall between 3 and 5 hundred dollars imo

 

You made a very good point here.

Oh, and I see his name is "David" not Davis, thanks @lloyd249 - The signature of David on the ebay ad is very small - does it look the same? It does not to me..?

 

i don't think there would be a whole lot of money in forging this guys signature (but stranger things happen) he signed a lot of things so it's not a rare thing , and signatures change over the years but the for lack of a better word ,the bones of it remain the same.
spell check fixed the name for me lol

 

looking at the link above his photo's of real action sell for lots , yours appears to me , to be a photo of a painting so I'm kinda basing my pricing on that .

 

going out on a limb here .... the subject matter might have been important to him , maybe a saudi prince washing his own dishes in the river , painted by a famous person, idk lol there's some pretty nice dinnerware there (and no silverware) hehehe

 

LOL - YAY!! Spelchk actually did a good thing! Gerspee - is it "David" and not Davis?

It does resemble a Saudi prince, it appears to be a photograph printed with a colorful chromolith type of method.

 

yes i agree it is a photograph , but i disagree on the subject matter being live as it is imo a picture of a painting , a very well done painting as it appears to be live , but i can see the picture/work lacks the details of a live photograph like the hills and water are lit up by the sun , the sky in the water is clear and blue , yet he is in darkness , the sun is not shinning on his back or in the plates or cups and imo the shadows in the reeds don't correspond with the position of the sun . there is no reflection from the sun in the water hence it has to be behind or above him .

 

You have a very good eye for detail, Lloyd, thanks, you could be right about it is a photograph of a painting. The only part that was shown in detail looks to be a bad hand lol and we've all seen those in paintings. I didn't look very closely at it earlier, except to see it was, indeed, a photograph!

Lloyd, I hope one day, I find your chair in the background of a David Duncan photograph of Picasso!

 

https://www.amazon.com/World-Allah-David-Douglas-Duncan/dp/0395325048

'Stretching from the deserts of Morocco through central Africa to Malaya, the world of Islam is captured in portraits and landscapes by an acclaimed photographer'

 

me too lol i thought i found it here in one but it was just a radiator under a table /easel lol did you see the pics of picasso's hand writing on my chair i found ? hi gerspee don't know if you have seen my chair so here's a pick of it

 

yes he is very famous so i think maybe he has a famous picture from a famous photographer of a famous painting from a famous artist . that's all i got hehehe , maybe painted from one of his photos , the irony (i think) is a man with forty wives doing his own dishes buy the river/oasis ..... imo