Opening: $150 Hammer Price: $150 SOLD Skylight Gallery 11 October 2000

Five vintage gelatin-silver contact prints of high-jumpers, 1930s-40s, with backstamps for Paris publications. Dimensions 3.5 x 4.5 inches (8x11 cm).   ( Inventory# gb53 )

Including two especially rich and well-composed views of Mademoiselle Fontaine, dated 1939 and 1941. The other athletes shown are "Walker," the Swede "Lundquist," and "Kotkas", a Finn.

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